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SOURCES FOR MORE INFORMATION

Learn more about drug prevention and drug abuse from the following sources:

The Broward County Commission on Substance Abuse offers information for
parents on how to talk about drugs with their children. Call
18003344568. Tollfree calls can be made from anywhere to this number.

In Palm Beach County, the Partnership for a DrugFree Community can be
reached at 5613756608.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse offers a new combination telephonefax
service to provide information. Call 18886446432, tollfree, for a
series of recorded messages about narcotics abuse and addiction. After
hearing them, a caller may ask for printed reports to be faxed or mailed.
NIDA's home page on the World Wide Web is http://www.nida.nih.gov. To learn
more about drug prevention research, click on the Division of Epidemiology
and Prevention Research. For information on communitybased data from the
Community Epidemiology Work Group, click on CEWG.

The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information has a tollfree
phone number and a home page. At 18007296686, questions about drugs will
be answered. The clearinghouse's home page is http://www.health.org.

Partnership for a DrugFree America, a coalition of volunteers from the
communications industry which places drugfree messages in the media, has a
home page at http://www.drugfreeamerica.org.

Among other sources:

PRIDE (Parents' Resource Institute for Drug Education): Call 7704589900.
Web site: www.prideusa.org.

Community AntiDrug Coalitions of America. For information on current
issues or legislation, call 18003784750.

A booklet titled How to Raise DrugFree Kids is available from the U.S.
Department of Education, 18006240100, or through the Safe and DrugFree
Schools' website at www.ed.gov/DrugFree.

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