The Online World resources handbook
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Your personal HealthNet http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/6.html<br />
and interesting information at the Back and Neck Pain site.<br />
ADVOCACY is a discussion list dedicated to addressing the issues of people with<br />
disabilities in bettering their lives and protecting their rights.<br />
Here are some Web sites devoted to the blind and disabled:<br />
http://www.nfb.org/default.htm<br />
http://www.rit.edu:80/~easi/<br />
<strong>The</strong> Internet Mental Health Resources home page (Canada):<br />
http://www.mentalhealth.com/, and the US National Institute on Mental Health resource<br />
page.<br />
LD OnLine offers information on learning disabilities, learning disorders, attention<br />
deficit disorder, ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, speech<br />
disorder, reading difficulties, special education, parenting, teaching, psychologists,<br />
pediatricians. <strong>The</strong> Down Syndrome site informs about symptoms, treatments, causes and<br />
incidence..<br />
Drugs<br />
For information about drugs, check http://www.links2go.com/more/http:<br />
/www.drugtext.org/. It offers an abundance of links to information about drug abuse,<br />
drug dependence, and about drugs like Amphetamines, Cannabis, Cocaine/Crack,<br />
Ecstasy, Ketamine, LSD, Nitrites/Poppers, Opiates/Heroin, Solvents, Steroids,<br />
Tranquillizers.<br />
Emotional support<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are over 200 <strong>resources</strong> on the Internet offering emotional support. Areas covered<br />
include Abuse, Addiction, Anxiety and panic, Attention Deficit, Broken Relationships,<br />
Divorce, Depression, Loneliness, Obsessive Compulsive, Personality Disorders,<br />
Schizophrenia, Low Self Esteem, Suicide, etc. Examples<br />
<strong>The</strong> Panic Anxiety Page<br />
healthfinder (in Spanish and English)<br />
<strong>The</strong> American Foundation for Suicide Prevention<br />
If you are already addicted to the Internet, click for "Netaholics Anonymous."<br />
Getting old<br />
Ageing is focused at http://alpha.genebee.msu.su/agenews.html. <strong>The</strong> page has links to<br />
bionet.molbio.ageing, sci.life extension, and archives of old postings at BIOSCI/bionet.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Alzheimer's disease What's New page brings summaries of the most recent<br />
research and news updates. <strong>The</strong> Arthritis page is set to help people manage<br />
osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and the many different forms of this disease.<br />
Ageline is a database produced by the American Association of Retired Persons. It<br />
does an excellent job covering research about older persons, particularly on consumer<br />
issues and health care, by summarizing journal articles and the contents of other<br />
published reports.<br />
While our "face to face" world sometimes makes it difficult for older people to<br />
participate in discussions between young people, this is not the situation in the online<br />
world. All people are treated the same way. It is impossible for others to know your age,<br />
unless someone tells them.<br />
Getting fertile<br />
<strong>The</strong> Atlanta Reproductive Health Centre informs about women's health issues such as<br />
infertility and endometriosis. An online book for couples describing infertility treatment<br />
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