Pharmacology & Addiction

 DATABASES

• ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER

• ALTHEALTH WATCH

• cINAHL

• HEALTH REFERENCE CENTER

• MEDLINE

• NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH COLLECTION

• PROQUEST NURSING JOURNALS

• PSYCaRTICLES

• psychinfo 

• pubmed central

• science Full Text

• wiley interscience

ENCYCLOPEDIAS, DICTIONARIES, AND HANDBOOKS

• 2003 Oncology Nursing Drug Handbook   ECRef  RC271  .C5 O53  2003
• Addictions: a Comprehensive Guidebook   RC562  .M327  1999
• Basic & Clinical Pharmacology   Ref  RM300  .R49  2001
• Drug Abuse Handbook   Ref  RM316  .D76  1998
• Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior   ECRef  HV5804  .E53  2001
• Handbook on Drug and Alcohol Abuse   RC564.15  .W54  2004
• Handbook of Geriatric Drug Therapy   ECRef  RC953.7  .H36  2000
• Human Pharmacology: a Molecular to Clinical   Ref  RM300  .H86  1998
• Intravenous Medications: a Handbook for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals  ECRef  RM170   .G33  2001
• Mosby's genRx   Ref  RS55.2  .P48  1998
• Mosby's Home Care & Hospice Drug Handbook   ECRef  RM301.12  .M29  1999
• Mosby's Pharmacology in Nursing   ECMain  RM301  .H33  2003
• Mosby's Rapid Reference to Diagnostic & Laboratory Tests   ECRef  RB38.2  .P34  2000
• Nurse's Handbook of Alternative & Complementary Therapies   R733  .N87  2003
• Nursing 2007 Dangerous Drug Interactions   Ref  RM302  .N87  2007
• PDR for Herbal Medicines   Ref  RS75  .P554  1998
• PDR Nurse's Drug Handbook   Ref  RM125  .P472  2001
• Pharmacology for Nursing Care   ECMain  RM301  .L523  2004
• Pharmacology for the Primary Care Provider   ECRef  RM301.28  .E34  2000
• Pharmacotherapeutics for Nurse Practitioner Prescribers   ECMain & ECCD-ROM  RM300  .W96  2002
• Psychotropic Drugs: Fast Facts   Ref  RM315  .M355  1995
• Saunders Nursing Drug Handbook   ECRef & ECCD-ROM  RM125  .N82  2007 

SELECTED INTERNET SOURCES

• American Psychiatric Nurses Assocation
• American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
• America's Eating Habits: Changes and Consequences The state of nutrition in America is presented in this book from the US Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service.
• Best Buy Drugs   Free guidance for consumers on prescription medicines from Consumer Reports.
• Brown & Williamson files on the health effects of smoking Tobacco Control Archives
• CASA The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University provides full-text reports on the costs, impact, and prevention of drug and alcohol abuse.
• Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University Information about the Center and its library, one of the world's largest collections of materials on alcohol, along with links to other Internet resources.
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention  from US Department of Health and Human Services
• CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service Descriptions of current clinical trials, contact information, new drug news.
• ClinicalTrials.Gov ClinicalTrials, from the National Institutes of Health, provides "information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details."
• DailyMed  from the National Library of Medicine; information about currently prescribed and marketed drugs.
• Drug Digest Check Interactions Select from table of over 5,000 drugs to see it there are any interactions between them or between selected drugs and alcohol and food.
• Encyclopedia of Psychology Links to 2,000 resources in psychology, behavior, addiction and related areas.
• EurekAlert  Latest news and glossaries in science, medicine & technology fields, from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research News of the latest drugs, drug withdrawals, and the Orange Book of Approved Drug Products and their patent expiration dates.
• Herbal Safety  Information site provided by U. Texas
• IntNSA   International Nurses Society on Addictions.
• Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide Search by diagnosis, pathogen, or antibiotic type for reviews, articles, clinical trails, and news. Free registration is required.
• Lab Tests Online    A public resource web site on clinical lab testing; peer reviewed and non-commercial.
• MedlinePlus' Drug Information  from the National Library of Medicine; information on drugs, supplements & herbal remedies.
• Medscape Medscape from WebMD features newslinks from Reuters Health and Medscape Medical News,leading articles from major medical journals, free CME programs, selections from Scientific American Medicine, and very useful Specialty Home Pages. Free registration is required.
• NAADAC  Association for addiction professionals.
• National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information(SAMHSA)  from the U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
• National Institute of Mental Health
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism  from National Institutes of Health.
• NIDA: National Institute on Drug Abuse The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• PDR Health Drug information and other resources from the publishers of the Physician's' Desk Reference. 
• Project Cork A database of article citations and a guide to internet resources on alcohol and substance abuse materials.
• RxList Drug information, keyword searchable.  
• SafeMedication.com   from the American Society of Health System Pharmacists.
• United States Patent and Trademark Office Seach for patents or for trademarks. Images may be included for later files. Patents are also available via SciFinder Scholar, a software program available in the O'Toole Library for searching Chemical Abstracts, Medline, and US Patents.
• USP drug information from the Mayo Clinic site Find information on more than 8,000 prescription and over-the-counter drugs from Micromedex Inc.

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