Welcome! This guide will serve as a starting point for Shippensburg University students wishing to conduct research on various aspects of the national debate over alcohol and substance abuse. You will find sources that introduce you to your topic and keep you up-to-date with links to news articles, research websites, journal articles, and research reports concerning alcohol and substance abuse.
You will also find selected key publications, books & E-books, research organizations and advocacy groups, data sources and links to general and specialized databases for further research.
Main Term(s): alcohol abuse, alcoholism, drug abuse, substance abuse
Related Terms: alcohol, alcohol-induced disorders, alcoholics, binge drinking, drinking & traffic accidents, drug overdose, drug traffic, drug use & traffic accidents, drugged driving, drunk driving, self-destructive behavior, zero-tolerance policy
Broader Terms: addictions, pathological psychology, personality disorders, temperance, victimless crimes
Narrower Terms: alcoholism & crime, employees -- alcohol testing, drug addiction, inhalant abuse, medication abuse, opioid abuse, tobacco use, youth & alcohol, [name or category of drug] abuse
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Behavior by 
Addiction: A Reference Encyclopedia by 
Alcohol Use Disorders: A Developmental Science Approach to Etiology by 
College Drinking and Drug Use by 
Demons: Our Changing Attitudes to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs by 
Drugs, Crime, and Justice by 
Drugs and Drug Policy by 
Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do about It: a Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs by 
Illicit Drugs by 
Substance Abuse: Prevalence, Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors and Prevention by A number of important national newspapers have topic or issue sections of their website that bring together all the paper's articles on particular topics. The leading example of this is "Times Topics" from the New York Times. Each topic guide/section has a search tool that lets you refine your search.
Unfortunately, these sections are often not easy to browse or locate on the newspaper websites. Use the "High Quality Web Source Finder" search box above to search for your topic. Then choose the Newspaper Topic Guides tab to look for these in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune. If you should hit a pay wall when browsing these newspapers, simply search for articles from any of these three papers using the ProQuest Newstand library database.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the public policy research division of Congress. It issues detailed research reports on a very wide range of issues. CRS doesn't maintain its own website, but its reports are available through several organizations and libraries.
