Controlled Vocabularies: AOD Thesaurus (The Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus)
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From a history of the thesaurus:
… [In 1991] NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) entered into a joint project with the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). Thus, The Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus: A Guide to Concepts and Terminology in Substance Abuse and Addiction (AOD Thesaurus) was born.
The AOD Thesaurus provides a conceptual map of the multidisciplinary field of AOD research and practice, as well as standard terminology, which, over time, will result in consistent indexing and major improvements in searching and retrieval across many databases. The Thesaurus is used in indexing and searching both ETOH ( and the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) databases (http://sadatabase.health.org). It is also being used in organizing various small substance abuse collections.
To further promote a consistent vocabulary for the AOD field, NIAAA submitted the second edition of the AOD Thesaurus to the National Library of Medicine for incorporation into its Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus. This edition of the Thesaurus has also been incorporated into the 2000 version of the UMLS Metathesaurus
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