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...
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DAWN | Drug Abuse Warning Network
Collected Date: 2005-2011
Report Type: Short Report
N-SSATS | National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services, NSDUH | National Survey on Drug Use and Health, TEDS | Treatment Episode Data Set
Collected Date: 2005-2010
Report Type: Data Review or Analytical Report
This report presents an evaluation of the coverage, overlap, biases, strengths, and weaknesses of three sources of data on the receipt of specialty substance use treatment: the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), and the Treatment Episode Data Set...
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...
DAWN | Drug Abuse Warning Network
Collected Date: 2005-2010
Report Type: Short Report
This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) short report looks at the estimated number of emergency room visits for adverse reactions involving involving the prescription sleep qie zolpidem for 2005 through 2010. The report focuses on gender, age groups and other pharmaceuticals such as pain relievers, other anti-anxiety and insomnia medications...