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About the National Data
Data
Baseline: 93.0 percent of pregnant females aged 15 to 44 years reported abstaining from illicit drugs in the past 30 days in 2017-18
Target: 95.3 percent
Methodology
Illicit drugs are defined as marijuana or hashish, cocaine (including crack), inhalants, hallucinogens (including PCP and LSD), heroin, and nonmedical use of psychotherapeutics. To ensure adequate precision of estimates for pregnant women, estimates are based on combined data from two years.