The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has a new website to reach drug abuse researchers, practitioners, and policy makers.

The NIDA Networking Project (NNP) website provides opportunities for information sharing among those interested in addiction research and the potential for research collaboration among scientists across the country.

The NNP Website gives users access to the locations, people, expertise, and resources of NIDA's research networks to help create synergies, improve efficiency, and accelerate scientific discovery.

The NNP Website is located at: http://nnp.drugabuse.gov.

This one-stop portal to drug abuse resources includes the following information:

• Map locations and contacts for about 200 NIDA-supported network sites across the U.S.;
• Network missions and descriptions;
• Links to more than 15 network-related Websites;
• Links to scientific protocols and papers, as well as procedural policies and manuals;
• NIDA news and events of interest to scientists, clinicians, and addiction specialists;
• The NNP Colleagues Directory -- a searchable data base of network members' expertise and research interests.

For more information, please contact: Susan David at 301-435-0640 or davids2@nida.nih.gov.