Drug use and abuse National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information This organization provides an enourmous number of tables in the Research Data and Survey section of thier gopher server. These files include approximately 145 tables reporting such information as the number of high-school seniors that have used drugs in the last month (by drug, from 1982 to 1990) and national advertising expenditures for alcoholic beverages by type. FYI 6.3% reported using Marijuana or Hashish in the 30 days before the survey in 1982, only 2.2% did so in 1990. One file name did not match the contents, so make sure to read the title inside the file as well. In addition, this organization has prepared some nice reports in HTML format that would serve as good examples of federal reports. These include the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse for 1993 to 1998, and the Detailed Tables for 1998 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) . In addition to reporting statistics verbally and graphically, these documents include discussions of p-value use and sampling in the surveys. Most states maintain some type of Health Department to provide services and information to their citizens. Many of these offices also maintain data sets related to health issues. Within those issues, the use of tobacco products and alcohol (both considered drugs) are usually tracked. For example, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment maintains a "Vital Statistics Page" with links to the Colorado Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. This program (BRFSS) "is a system of telephone surveys sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control to monitor lifestyles and behaviors related to the leading causes of mortality and morbidity." Risk Factor Prevalences are given for 1990 to 1994. The use of tobacco and alcohol are listed along with definitions of the variables used. This system is also used by the state of Virginia and Indiana (It is also used in Texas but the pages are quite difficult to read). The Department of Health for the State of New York maintains a "Public Health Data Set" page that contains some very good data sets for health statistics and a special link for tobacco, drugs, and alcohol data. U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration As with most U.S. government departments, the DEA's web pages have quite a few associated graphics making this a rather slow site. The pages do, however, contain illustrative data regrading specific types of illegal drug abuse in the United States, illegal drug importation, and definitions for "abused drugs", The majority of this information must be extracted from the actual text of the available reports. Some of these reports do have the data in tabular or graphic formats. Drug Reform Coordination Network This site represents the opposite side of the coin, giving a voice to those organizations in support of legalizing specific drugs. A good source of "drug" related information and contains some very useful data sets regarding drug usage, drug related deaths, drug related violence, and many other topics. "Charts and Graphs About the Drug War" are also presented but they are quite slow to download since each is a separate graphic image.