The National GAINS Center is a national locus for the collection and dissemination of information about effective mental-health and substance-abuse services for people with co-occurring disorders in contact with the justice system.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has identified 10 domains for National Outcome Measures (NOM). The domains embody meaningful, real-life outcomes for people who are striving to attain and sustain recovery.

This manual helps therapists teach groups of individuals with schizophrenia how to avoid alcohol and other drugs, recognize signs that they may be headed toward relapse, and build healthy habits and healthy pleasures into their daily routines.

The authors of this article describe the policy and administrative-practice implications of implementing evidence-based services, particularly in public-sector settings.

This article reports on a qualitative study designed to uncover the practices that differentiate Supported Employment programs that produce high rates of competitive employment among people with mental illness from those with low rates of employment.

The 2009 edition of Principles of Addiction Medicine provides a comprehensive overview of the diagnosis and treatment of addictive disorders, as well as the management of co-occurring medical and psychiatric conditions. A resource for nurse practitioners, social workers, and addiction counselors, as well as providers of residential and outpatient treatment.

$0, Free | This update of the "Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment" from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)  is intended to address addiction to a wide variety of drugs, including nicotine, alcohol, and illicit and prescription drugs.

Project Cork's disseminates current, authoritative information on substance abuse for health and human-service  providers and policymakers. The "clinical tools" page of its website includes 15 screening tests. Some are alcohol specific while others cover alcohol and other drugs. Some are designed for self-administration and others for use in clinical interviews.

People who are concerned that they may be subject to involuntary psychiatric treatment or commitment at some future time can prepare a legal document in advance to express their choices about treatment. This is called a psychiatric advance directive.

Mental Health America (MHA) supports and promotes the use of psychiatric advance directives as a tool for the expression of an individual's free will and self-determination. Psychiatric advance directives offer several key benefits. Learn more.