Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2022) Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN): findings from drug-related emergency department visits, 2021. Rockville, MD: Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. HHS publication no. PEP22-07-03-002.
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DAWN is a nationwide public health surveillance system that captures data on ED visits related to recent substance use and misuse directly from the electronic health records of participating hospitals. In 2021, the DAWN identified 149,021 (unweighted) drug-related ED visits from 52 participating hospitals. These data were analyzed to (1) generate nationally representative weighted estimates for all drug related ED visits, (2) generate nationally representative weighted estimates for the top five drugs in drug-related ED visits, (3) assess monthly trends and drugs involved in polysubstance ED visits in a subset of sentinel hospitals, and (4) identify drugs new to DAWN’s Drug Reference Vocabulary (DRV) in 2021.
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Risk and needs assessment > Risk assessment > Early warning monitoring system
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Identification and screening > Identification and screening for substance use
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Type of care > Emergency care
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Health care programme, service or facility > Hospital
VA Geographic area > United States
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