Drug Abuse Warning Network

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Emergency Department Trends from the Drug Abuse Warning Network, Preliminary Estimates January-June, 2001 with Revised Estimates 1994—2000 (DHHS PublNoSMA-02-3634). Rockville, MD, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2001... 

Drug Enforcement Administration. Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) Phase VI Report. May 1977-Apri1 1978. Washington, D.C. Drug Enforcement Administration, 1978. p. 158. 

The association of substance abuse with emergency department (ED) visits in 21 different metropolitan areas in the United States is reported by the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN). This survey tracks ED visits that are due to a condition induced by or related to drug use. Included in the data are ED visits associated with alcohol, alone and in combination with other substances of abuse, including cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and major stimulants. Figure 33-2 indicates the number of ED visits that are associated with illicit... 

Figure 7.1 Emergency department mentions of MDMA from 1994-2002. (Adapted from Office of Applied Studies, SAMSHA, Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2002 updated 03/2003.)...

Office of Applied Studies, SAMHSA, Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2001 56 Courtesy of the Drug Enforcement Administration 57 Noelle Nardone 64 Courtesy of the Drug Enforcement Administration 65 Noelle Nardone... 

According to the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), a public health surveillance system, in the second half of 2003, there were 627,923 drug-related visits to the emergency rooms of hospitals. Of these visits, 141,343 involved alcohol alone or alcohol along with other drugs. Of all the alcohol-related visits, 16,770 were made by 12-to 17-year olds in a ratio of about 2 1, males to females. ... 

Office of Applied Studies, Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2003 Interim National Estimates of Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits. http //www.oas.samhsa.gov/ dawn/2K3interimED.pdf... 

SAMHSA, DAWN Drug Abuse Warning Network, http //dawninfo.samhsa.gov, 2004. Accessed January 8, 2004. 

Roberts, C.D., Data quality of tire Drug Abuse Warning Network, Am. J. Drug Alcohol Abuse, 22, 389, 1996. 

No specific total amphetamine-use statistics are available. However, according to the year 2000 report of the Drug Abuse Warning Network, there was a 35% increase from 1999 to 2000 in the number of hospital emergency department (ED) cases in which amphetamines were mentioned. DAWN is a national surveillance system that collects data on drug-related emergency department visits. 

More than half of GHB-related emergency room visits are for unexpected reaction and overdose following recreational use. The U.S. government s Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) reported an alarming rise in... 

There are no definitive numbers available on GHB abuse and overdoses, but various agencies have started tracking this information. The DEA reports more than 7,100 GHB overdoses and encounters with law enforcement between 1990 and 2001. Over that same time period, 65 GHB-related deaths, mainly from respiratory depression, have been documented. The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) listed 20 emergency room episodes in 1992, and the number of episodes has climbed steadily since then to 2,973 in 1999. That number leaped to 4,969 in 2000. 

In 2000, heroin was second only to cocaine in the number of drug-related emergency room episodes reported to a national registry run by the Drug Abuse Warning Network. Heroin, listed as a principal agent in respiratory and cardiac emergencies, went from 33,884 episodes nationwide in 1990 to 94,804 in 2000—an increase of nearly 180%. 

Death resulting from inhalant use is more common in males. The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) monitors drug-related deaths as reported by medical examiners in 40 metropolitan areas. In 1999, medical examiners in these cities recorded 129 deaths from inhalants, a 25% increase over the 103 inhalant deaths recorded in 1998. Those who died in 1999 from inhalant use ranged from adolescents to adults age 55 and older, and were predominantly white. 

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