The Maternal Drug Abuse Data Archive (MDA)

Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the collection includes data on the following topics: the prevalence of drug use among pregnant women and women of childbearing age; demographic characteristics of pregnant drug users; types and patterns of illicit drug use; social, psychological and economic antecedents of pre- and perinatal drug abuse; the effects of pre- and perinatal substance use on pregnancy complications and neonatal status; and the effects of fetal alcohol and drug exposure on children's physical, neurobehavioral, psychological and social development.

The Maternal Drug Abuse archive (MDA) brings together seven state-of-the-art research datasets on maternal alcohol and drug abuse. Datasets can be purchased as a Comprehensive Archive or individually. Select a data set title below for more information.

• Developmental Consequences of Prenatal Exposure to Methadone: Chicago, 1978-1984(Sydney L. Hans)
• The Neonatal Costs of Maternal Cocaine Use: Harlem Hospital, 1985-1986 (Ciaran S. Phibbs, David A. Bateman, and Rachel M. Schwartz)
• The 1991 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (Joseph Gfroerer, Joseph Gustin, Thomas Virag, Ralph Folsom, and J. Valley Rachal)
• The 1990 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (Joseph Gfroerer, Joseph Gustin, Thomas Virag, Ralph Folsom, and J. Valley Rachal)
• Physical and Social Development in Children Exposed Prenatally to PCP and Cocaine: Project Pride, Los Angeles, 1987-1990 (Judy Howard, Leila Beckwith, Michael Espinosa, and Carol Rodning)
• 1984-1987 Boston City Hospital Maternal Health Habits Project (Barry Zuckerman, Ralph Hingson, Deborah Frank, and Hortensia Amaro)
• California Perinatal Substance Exposure Study, 1992 (William A. Vega)

Go to: Standard Data Archive Product Features.

Download the README file for the data sets.