The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

About NCADI

NCADI's Mission

The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is the information service of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. NCADI is the world's largest resource for current information and materials concerning substance abuse prevention. NCADI services include:

• an information services staff equipped to respond to the public's alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug (ATID) inquiries;

• the distribution of free ATID materials, including fact sheets, brochures, pamphlets, posters, and video tapes from an inventory of over 1,000 items;

• a repertoire of culturally-diverse prevention materials, tailored for use by parents, teachers, youth, communities and prevention professionals;

• customized searches in the form of annotated bibliographies from alcohol and other drug data bases consisting of over 36,000 records;

• the development and distribution of the Prevention Materials database (PMD) including over 8,000 prevention-related materials, available to the public in electronic form; and,

• rapid dissemination of Federal grant announcements and application kits for ATOD prevention programs, treatment, and research funding opportunities.

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