Both legal and illegal drugs, including toboacco and alcohol, can be found in the following call numbers:
- 362.2 Mental and emotional illnesses and disturbances
- 394.1 Eating, drinking; using drugs
- 613 Promotion of health
- 615 Pharmacology & therapeutics, prescription drugs
- 616 Diseases
Database Resources
For resources that are more likely to meet the CRAAP criteria you should use databases like those found in NCWiseOwl. There are several databases that can be useful, such as...
Middle School Portal
High School Portal
- Use the Research in Context database for an overview of your drug topics.
- Type in a drug (e.g. alcohol or marijuana).
- Start with the Reference articles.
High School Portal
- Select EBSCOhost
- Choose Databases
- Select the following databases to begin with:
More information can be found by dropping down the "A-Z List" and clicking "Overview of Gale Resources." Select Health on the left hand side and then the Nursing and Allied Health Collection.
Hint: Don't forget to use your Boolean Operators and search strategies such as quotation marks to narrow your search results.
Hint: Don't forget to use your Boolean Operators and search strategies such as quotation marks to narrow your search results.
