Substance Abuse & Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA)
This archive housed at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a free, publicly available repository of current datasets (data files and their documentation). Over two dozen studies are currently available. An online subsetting mechanism is available for the following major studies: Monitoring the Future, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, Treatment Episode Data Set, and Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area Drug Study (DC*MADS).Online analysis is facilitated by the SDA numeric analysis tool.
Spatial Coverage:
International
Data Creator:
Office of Applied Studies at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the United States
Documentation:
Survey instruments, codebooks, publications based on SAMHDA data are available online.
Note:
Each SAMHDA study description and codebook includes a suggested bibliographic citation for the data.
Data Access:
Freely available data on internet. Registration required. Some data only available to ICPSR member institutions.