National Studies/Data Sets

Epidemiological data

• Alternative High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey (ALT-YRBS)
• Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program (ADAM)
• High School Survey or Monitoring the Future
• National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)
• National Comorbidity Survey (NCS)
• National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC)
• National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS)
• National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79, NLSY97)
• National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH; formerly National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, NHSDA)
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (YRBSS)

Surveillance data

• Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)
• National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS; formerly Uniform Facility Data Set, UFDS, and National Drug and Alcoholism Treatment Unit Survey, NDATUS)
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Vital Statistics

Service utilization data

• Drug Services Research Survey (DSRS)
• Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS)

Treatment outcome data

• California Drug and Alcohol Treatment Assessment (CALDATA)
• Drug Abuse Treatment Outcomes Studies (DATOS)
• Drug Evaluation Network System (DENS)
• National Treatment Improvement Evaluation Study (NTIES)
• Services Research Outcome Study (SROS)

Social science data

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

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