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General description

Brief Description: The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is a nationally represented public health surveillance system that continuously monitors drug-related visits to hospital emergency departments (EDs). A DAWN case is any ED visit involving recent drug use that is implicated in the ED visit. DAWN captures both ED visits that are directly caused by drugs and those in which drugs are a contributing factor but not the direct cause of the ED visit. Annually, DAWN produces estimates of drug-related visits to hospital EDs for the nation and for selected metropolitan areas.26

Examination Components: DAWN continued to produce estimates of drug abuse-related emergency department visits for the contiguous United States and 21 metropolitan areas through 2002. Because there were population shifts and changes in the hospital industry, DAWN implemented a sample redesign in 2003. Many other features of DAWN (e.g., redefining a DAWN visit to include all drug-related medical emergencies and not merely those involving misuse or abuse; the introduction of estimates that were representative of the Nation; changes in case-finding methodology, etc.) were also introduced at that time. The medical examiner/coroner component of DAWN continued to collect data on drug-related deaths through 2010.

Data access

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