NACoA to Update Alcohol & Drug Data Base
SAMHSA’s Research Compendium Available on Web

Washington, DC -- The National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) has entered into a private-public partnership to transfer the tracking system for research materials and other references on alcohol and drug abuse developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to NACoA. The tracking system, developed over 20 years, will now be updated by NACoA and maintained on a site available to the public.

Sis Wenger, President and CEO of NACoA, said, “The data base contains entries on over 100,000 research studies, prevention and treatment materials, and policy papers and speeches, each abstracted and indexed according to a Drug and Alcohol Thesaurus developed jointly by SAMHSA and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The history of substance abuse prevention and treatment for the last 20 years is covered along with all current research.”

A donation from Karol L. Kumpfer, PhD, a member of NACoA’s Board of Scientific Advisors, will provide support for the continuous updating and maintaining of the data base for its first year. “NACoA is very grateful to Dr. Kumpfer for her vision, support and generosity,” said Wenger.

The data base is now accessible to the public at no charge at the web address of http://ida.nacoa.org. The abstracts and indexing information are available, as well as the full documents in the case of the non-copyrighted studies, reports and papers.

The National Association for Children of Alcoholics, located in Rockville MD, is a national membership and affiliate organization whose mission is “to advocate for all children and families affected by alcoholism and other drug dependencies.” It is an Internal Revenue Service approved 501(c)3 non profit corporation founded in 1983 and has been operational since that time.

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