Addictions: Smoking, Drugs and Alcohol
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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Mood-Altering Drugs - chapter 3 of Our Bodies, Ourselves companion website.
American Legacy Foundation New Tool To Combat Tobacco Use Problems in Gay Community - American Legacy Foundation® Funds Program to Educate and Provide Resources. They work to build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit, to arm all young people with the knowledge and tools to reject tobacco, and to eliminate disparities in access to tobacco prevention and cessation services.
LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) Related Topics - from The American Legacy Foundation. Tobacco is a major issue in the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) community. Partly due to the tobacco industry's relentless campaign to target gay men and women through bar promotions, sponsorships, and advertisements in the queer press, LGBT adults and youth have roughly 40%-70% higher smoking rates than the general population; and bartenders and cocktail servers in LGBT oriented nightclubs are disproportionately exposed to secondhand smoke.
Anti-Tobacco Campaigns in the LGBT Community - part of the PBS' To The Contrary series.
bubblemonkey - anonymous, accurate information about drugs - designed for youth. There are surveys, information about drugs, games, trivia, stories, ask questions of the Brain Meter. Flash website in English and Spanish. If you don't live in one of the areas they list click on any of them to get to the information.
Ethical Funding - The Ethics of Tobacco, Alcohol, & Pharmaceutical Funding - A Practical Guide for LGBT Organizations (pdf format) - written by Laurie Drabble, MSW, MPH This version edited by Len Casey, Bob Gordon, Fred Guss, Steven Rickards and Gloria Soliz of CLASH © 1999 Coalition of Lavender Americans on Smoking and Health & Progressive Research and Training for Action - Revised 2001.
GLBT youth tobacco use - from Public Health - Seattle & King County. "For GLBT youth, fitting in can be a precious thing. Lots of GLBT youth feel isolated and lonely, at least until they find a group of GLBT-supportive peers. When they do, if smoking is the ticket to belonging, it may feel like a small price to pay. The problem is that the price is high--you just pay it years down the road."
Lesbians and Gay Men: Chemical Dependency Treatment Issues - by Dava L. Weinstein (Editor). Hardcover: 175 pages. Publisher: Harrington Park Press / Haworth Press (December 1992). ISBN-10: 1560243937; ISBN-13: 978-1560243939.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender (LGBT) - Individuals in the LGBT population are more likely to smoke than the general population, and may face added health complications and barriers to treatment. From The Maryland Quitting Use and Initiation of Tobacco (MDQuit) Resource Center.National LGBT Tobacco Control Network - working to support the many local tobacco control advocates in helping to eliminate tobacco health disparities for all LGBTs.
no-smoke.org / Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR) - "Tobacco is a major issue in the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) community. Partly due to the tobacco industry's relentless campaign to target gay men and women through bar promotions, sponsorships, and advertisements in the queer press, LGBT adults and youth have roughly 40%-70% higher smoking rates than the general population; and bartenders and cocktail servers in LGBT oriented nightclubs are disproportionately exposed to secondhand smoke."
Please promote Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities (SDFSC) (pdf format) - a document from The Washington Association for Substance Abuse and Violence Prevention. Information on by allocating $2m in the biennial operating budget to help offset the $3m federal cut to these services.
SoberRecovery's GLBT Programs - addiction treatment information & support.
Smoking and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities (pdf format) - from American Legacy Foundation.
Smoking Cessation Interventions in San Francisco’s Queer* Communities (pdf format) - What is the most effective way for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) smokers to quit? By participating in a tailored stop-smoking class where they can speak freely about their issues in quitting? If so, how well does an LGBT approach serve the needs of diverse subgroups of this population? These and other questions inspired Queer* Tobacco Intervention Project (QueerTIP). *Queer is a term reclaimed by the LGBT community and is intended to include all LGBT persons.
Talk Back to Big Tobacco! Script & Storyboard Contest - the contest deadline was December 2006 but there is still a lot of good information here.
Thinking About Quitting Smoking? - from The SafeGuards Project & LGBT Health Resource Center.
Tobacco & the GLBT Community (pdf format) - from The American Cancer Society; distributed on The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) Health Access Project website - a community-based effort first funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Tobacco Talk (pdf format) - a publication of the Indigenous Peoples' Task Force.