Highlights of the 2009 Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) Findings on Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits

Highlights of the 2009 Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) Findings on Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits

2009 Drug Abuse Warning Network Data Now Available for Download Through SAMHDA
The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), one of three major surveys conducted by SAMHSA's Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, is a public health surveillance system that monitors hospital drug-related emergency department (ED) visits and drug-related deaths reported by selected medical examiner and coroner offices across the country. DAWN uses a probability sample of hospitals to produce estimates of drug-related ED visits for the United States and selected metropolitan areas annually. Any ED visit related to recent drug use is included in DAWN, and all types of drugs (licit and illicit) are covered, including all alcohol involvement for patients under age 21 and alcohol involvement in combination with other substances for those over 21.

The 2009 ED DAWN public-use data and documentation files have been released for download
(Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), 2009) through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) SAMHDA Site. Variables in DAWN provide ED visit details, including type of case, case disposition, drug involvement, route of administration, and the number of unique drugs reported. The 2009 ED DAWN adds six drug fields, increasing the total number of potential drug reports available per ED visit from 16 in the 2008 DAWN to 22. SAMHSA plans to make the 2009 ED DAWN data available for online analysis on the SAMHDA website in the near future.

A report summarizing the 2009 DAWN findings titled Highlights of the 2009 Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) Findings on Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits can be obtained through the SAMHSA Publications Store. Detailed data tables and publications using data collected by DAWN are also available on the DAWN website.

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