NCADD World Wide Website Offers Information, Advice & Dozens of Internet Links

National Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence
Wednesday, 1 May 1996

A new website developed by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD) with a grant from the Christopher D. Smithers Foundation, offers Internet users a comprehensive menu of information and advice as well as dozens of links to other organizations who have enlisted computer technology in the fight against alcohol and other drug addictions.

"Our website has something for everyone," said NCADD chair John Howard Wilson. "The public now will have instant access to material they can use in a variety of ways. If a student with a report due or a member of the media on deadline needs the latest statistical information about the effects of alcohol use in America, they can get it with a few strokes on their computer keyboard instead of writing to us or going to the library. If a teenager needs to see some compelling reasons why the majority of young people have chosen not to drink or to use other drugs, our website has those, too."

The NCADD website (http://www.ncadd.org), hosted by Site One and produced by Occasional Designs, also provides hypertext links to almost 50 other organizations, government agencies and universities. With a click of a mouse, visitors to the NCADD website can see what several NCADD Affiliates are doing at the local level, and they can easily find the home pages of Alcoholics Anonymous, Al-Anon/Alateen, the American Society of Addiction Medicine and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. provides education, information, help and hope in the fight against the chronic and often fatal disease of alcoholism, and other drug addictions. Founded in 1944, NCADD, with its nationwide network of Affiliates, advocates prevention, intervention and treatment and is committed to ridding the disease of its stigma and its sufferers from their denial and shame.

For more information, or to contact National Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence, see their website at: www.ncadd.org