Monographs and Other Volumes

Research Monograph 65: Women and Drugs: A New Era For Research

Affirms the need to routinely include the gender variable in research about drug abuse. Presents data about women and drugs from preclinical, clinical, and epidemiologic studies, and discusses societal, economic and physiological perspective factors that relate to drug use and abuse in women.

Research Monograph 114: Methodological Issues in Controlled Studies on Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Drugs of Abuse

Discusses controlled studies conducted by researchers to identify the prenatal effects of drugs on the behavioral, intellectual and physical development of drug exposed infants as well as the reproductive outcome in the addicted mother.

Research Monograph 117: Methodological Issues in Epidemiological, Prevention, and Treatment Research on Drug Exposed Women and their Children

Discusses the effects of prenatal exposure to drugs; physical and behavioral aspects of the mother, child, and their relation to each other; intervention issues; legal issues relating to substance abusing women and their children.

Research Monograph 149: Medications Development for the Treatment of Pregnant Addicts and Their Children

Contains comprehensive and up-to-information regarding the effects of abused drugs on pregnancy and explores current strategies for treating pregnant addicts and their infants. Other related areas discussed are: medications development, pharmaceutical development, regulatory requirements, and ethical and legal considerations in performing clinical studies in these populations.

Research Monograph 158: Biological Mechanisms and Perinatal Exposure to Drugs

Reviews the current research findings in the area of perinatal exposure to abused drugs and its impact on various biological systems during the developmental period.

Monograph 166: Treatment for Drug Exposed Women and Their Children [pdf]

Presents experiences, products, and procedures associated with the NIDA-supported Perinatal-20 Treatment Research Demonstration Program projects. Describes their efforts to expand clinical sites and implement services research protocols. Discusses issues associated with subject selection, recruitment, and retention, clinical assessment and program evaluation, data management and analyses.

Drug Addiction Research and the Health of Women: Executive Summary

Contains condensed versions of presentations and discussion sessions from the 1994 NIDA sponsored conference, "Drug Addiction Research and the Health of Women." This conference brought together leading researchers to present state-of-the-science findings, discuss research issues and challenges confronting the field and lay the framework for NIDA's research agenda in this important area.

Drug Addiction Research and the Health of Women (1998), Book, NCADI #BKB258

Builds on presentations from the 1994 NIDA sponsored conference, "Drug Addiction Research and the Health of Women." The chapters in this volume contain in-depth, state-of-the-science reviews that highlight much of what is known about the epidemiology, the etiology, and health, social, and behavioral consequences of drug abuse and addiction. Biological mechanisms underlying these processes and legal, prevention, and treatment issues surrounding drug abuse and addiction are also discussed. The material presented in this publication clearly illustrates the breadth and complexity of drug abuse-related issues that affect women's health.