NIDA Publications on Women's Health and Sex/Gender Differences
Relevant Publications by NIDA Grantees and Staff
NIDA NOTES
A Collection of NIDA NOTES: Articles that Address Women's Health and Gender Differences (NCADI #NN0013)
A compilation of articles from NIDA NOTES that address drug abuse in women and gender differences. The "Collection" covers a wide range of issues and includes such topics as the relationship between victimization, violence and drug abuse in women, issues impacting drug treatment for females, maternal drug use, and gender differences in drug effects and pattern of drug use. (NIDA NOTES articles on women's health and gender differences published after June 2003 can be accessed at NIDA NOTES Excerpts).
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.
Science & Practice Perspectives
Fals-Stewart, W., O'Farrell, T. J., & Berchler, G.R. (2004). Behavioral couples therapy for substance abuse: rationale, methods, and findings. Science & Practice Perspectives, 2, 30-41. (NIH Publication No. 04-5356)
http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/Perspectives/vol2no2/04Perspectives-Behavioral.pdf [PDF 248 K]
Jackson, V. (2004). Residential treatment for parents and their children: the village experience. Science & Practice Perspectives, 2, 44-53. (NIH Publication No. 04-5356)
http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/Perspectives/vol2no2/05Perspectives-Residential.pdf [PDF 272 K]
Uhler, A.S., & Parker, O.V. (2002). Treating women drug abusers: action therapy and trauma assessment.Ê Science &Practice Perspectives, 1, 30-35. (NIH Publication No. 02-5033)
http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/Perspectives/vol1no1/05Perspectives-Women.pdf [PDF 328 K]
Research Report Series
Information on women and gender differences can be found in these subsections of the "Research Report Series."
Marijuana Abuse
Anabolic Steroid Abuse
Cocaine Abuse and Addiction
Inhalant Abuse
Methamphetamine Abuse and Addiction
Nicotine Addiction
Prescription Drugs Abuse and Addiction
Videos
Treatment Issues for Women - (1991), VHS, 22 min, NCADI #VHS39, $12.50
The video demonstrates that women in recovery often have a range of problems that predate their drug use and that must be dealt with as apart of their drug abuse treatment. In the video women in treatment talk about their problems and progress during individual interviews and group therapy sessions. The treatment scenes are interwoven with relevant comments from program staff and NIDA researchers who specialize in treatment issues for women.
Treatment Issues in Prison: A New Way Out - (1995), VHS, 23 min, 17 sec, NCADI #VHS72 $ $12.50
Portrays two comprehensive drug abuse treatment approaches that have been effective with men and women in State and Federal prisons.
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