Mental Health & Substance Abuse

• Web-MD - http://www.webmd.com
  Provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those seeking information.

• St. John's Mercy Health Information Library - http://www.stjohnsmercy.org/healthinfo
  Provides access to adult and pediatric health information covering hundreds of conditions and thousands of medical topics.

• National Alliance for Mentally Ill - http://www.nami.org
  NAMI is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic and other severe anxiety disorders, autism and pervasive developmental disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and other severe and persistent mental illnesses that affect the brain.

• The Manic Depressive Society - http://www.everybody.co.nz/support/manic.html
  The Manic Depressive Society is an independent, voluntary, self-help group comprising people with bipolar affective disorder and their relatives.

• National Institute for Mental Health - http://www.nimh.nih.gov
  This site is about mental health: Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Alzheimer's Disease, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Schizophrenia, etc. It contains information for the researcher (news & events, grants, contracts, & committees, and research activities) as well as the general public (the public information section provides specifics on "mental disorders, diagnosis and treatment," in addition to links to other NIMH programs such as D/ART, the Depression Awareness Recognition Treatment Program).

• Missouri Department of Mental Health - http://www.modmh.state.mo.us
  The Missouri Department of Mental Health is dedicated to combating stigma associated with mental illness, developmental disabilities, and substance addiction.

• Mental Health - http://www.mentalhealth.com
  This site makes good use of frames to organize hundreds of entries on mental disorders, medications, and other topics. Click on a disorder, and you're taken to a menu that includes descriptions, treatments, research, magazine articles, and links to related sites.

• Recovery Works Resource Center - http://www.addictions.org/recoveryworks/
  Recommended Internet links covering addiction, with the following topics: alcohol, gambling, work, drugs, food, grief, sex, Internet, support groups, and adolescence. Many links to twelve step programs. Each section includes pertinent statistics.