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DAWN | Drug Abuse Warning Network
Collected Date: 2010-2013
Report Type: Short Report

This short report uses data from the AHRQ Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (HCUP-NEDS) to assess the prevalence of underage alcohol misuse–related emergency department (ED) visits. Changes in the trends of alcohol-only and drug and alcohol-combination ED visits by age, gender and time are examined.

NSDUH | National Survey on Drug Use and Health, DAWN | Drug Abuse Warning Network, TEDS | Treatment Episode Data Set
Collected Date: 2007-2014
Report Type: Short Report

This report presents facts about substance use among adults age 65 and older, including information on substance use on an average day, receipt of substance use treatment, and emergency department (ED) visits. This paper draws upon three SAMHSA data collections: the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), the...

DAWN | Drug Abuse Warning Network
Collected Date: 2004-2011
Report Type: Short Report

This short report uses data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network to examine when alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits occurred, by time of day and day of the week. Data from a nationally-representative sample of non-Federal, general hospitals with 24-hour EDs was used, with combined data for 2004-2011. The pattern...

NSDUH | National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Collected Date: 2011-2014
Report Type: Short Report

This short report uses 2011 to 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess substance initiation and substance use among part-time and full-time college students aged 18 to 22.

DAWN | Drug Abuse Warning Network
Collected Date: 2005-2011
Report Type: Short Report

Describes emergency department (ED) visits involving the nonmedical use of narcotic pain relievers (opioids) using data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN). The drugs most commonly combined with narcotic pain relievers in ED visits; trends for narcotic pain relievers (2005-2011); demographic characteristics of narcotic pain reliever-related visits in 2011...

TEDS | Treatment Episode Data Set, NSDUH | National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Collected Date: 2010
Report Type: Short Report

This report looks at costs for substance use disorder treatment reported in the 2010 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. These data include costs for prescriptions for medications and behavioral treatment used to treat alcohol use disorders and opioid use disorders made in office visits to general and family practice physicians...

DAWN | Drug Abuse Warning Network
Collected Date: 2010-2011
Report Type: Short Report

This short report uses data on drug-related emergency department (ED) visits from the Drug Abuse Warning Network to look at 2011 ED visits involving synthetic cannabinoids. It shows trends compared to 2010 by gender, age group, the age distribution of patients, the drugs most commonly combined with synthetic cannabinoids and...

DAWN | Drug Abuse Warning Network
Collected Date: 2005-2011
Report Type: Short Report

This short report examines emergency department (ED) visits involving benzodiazepines, which are medications prescribed to relieve symptoms of anxiety, panic attacks and seizures. It looks at the effect of combining benzodiazepines with opioid pain relievers or alcohol, both substances that also depress the central nervous system. The report quantifies the...

DAWN | Drug Abuse Warning Network
Collected Date: 2005-2010
Report Type: Short Report

This short report uses data on drug-related emergency department (ED) visits to examine the involvement of zolpidem in ED visits that are related to overmedication. Zolpidem is a medication used to treat insomnia. Overmedication may occur when a patient takes too much of their own medications (i.e., exceeds the prescribed...

DAWN | Drug Abuse Warning Network
Collected Date: 2007-2011
Report Type: Short Report

This short report uses data on drug-related emergency department (ED) visits from the Drug Abuse Warning Network to examine the trends in ED visits involving methamphetamine from 2007 to 2011. In addition to the trends for total methamphetamine-related visits, it also shows trends by gender and by age group; the...

NSDUH | National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Collected Date: 2010-2012
Report Type: Short Report

This short report uses 2010 to 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess binge alcohol use by youth aged 12 to 17 by substate areas.

NSDUH | National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Collected Date: 2008-2012
Report Type: Short Report

This short report uses 2008 to 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess receipt of workplace policies and programs regarding substance use among full-time employed workers aged 18 to 64 by past month illicit drug use or heavy alcohol use status.

NSDUH | National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Collected Date: 2010-2012
Report Type: Short Report

This short report uses 2010 to 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess any mental illness/serious mental illness and treatment among those ages 18 to 25 and major depressive episodes and treatment among those aged 16 to 17. Results are shown by residential stability, employment, education...

NSDUH | National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Collected Date: 2013
Report Type: Short Report

This report uses 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess the prevalence of substance use and mental disorders among those aged 12 or older, adolescents aged 12 to 17, and adults aged 18 or older and the receipt of treatment/services for behavioral health issues. The 2013...

DAWN | Drug Abuse Warning Network
Collected Date: 2005-2011
Report Type: Short Report

This short report uses data on drug-related emergency department (ED) visits from the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) to examine the trends and characteristics of ED visits involving drug-related suicide attempts among ED patients aged 45-64 in 2011. The report discusses the patterns for male and female patients, the drugs...