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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) extended dependent care coverage to all individuals under age 26. The coverage expansion in 2010 likely caused an increase in private insurance coverage and mental health treatment use for young adults. For mental health and substance use treatment, changes in who pays for care can...

This report describes emergency department (ED) visits involving drug-related suicide attempts using data from the 2011 Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN). The ED visits for suicide attempts by middle-aged adults were more likely to involve alcohol combined with other drugs compared with other drug-related visits.

This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) data spotlight uses 2011 data to examine ED visits for adverse reactions to medications among children aged 12 or younger.

Abstract The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program provide information on alcohol and drug use by individuals who have recently been arrested. The studies differ in their target populations (civilian, noninstitutionalized individuals vs. arrestees in 39 sites recently booked into...

This study used data from the public use files of the 1997 to 2004 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which were linked to death certificate data from the 1997 to 2006 National Death Index (NDI), to assess the association between psychological distress and mortality.

This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) spotlight looks at the outcomes of emergency department visits that involve underage drinking in 2011. The report compares the outcome of emergency department vists by patients ages 12-20 that involved alcohol only, to visits where other drug(s) were taken along with alcohol.

This spotlight uses data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) to examine emergency department visits related to suicide attempts that involved drugs. There was an overall increase in drug-related suicide attempts from 2005 to 2011 (for patients ages 12 and older). The report also examines the trends for individual...

This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) spotlight is about emergency department visits involving energy drink results in hospitalization in 2011.

This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) spotlight is about emergency department visits by status of follow-up care for drug-related suicide attempts involving antidepressants among adolescents aged 12 to 17 from 2008 to 2010.

This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) spotlight is about emergency department visits made by homeless and the follow-up care from 2009 to 2010.

This publication provides behavioral health statistics at the national and state levels from multiple data sources, including the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the National Health Interview Survey, the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey, the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, as well as peer-reviewed journal articles.

This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) spotlight is about emergency department visits involving nonmedical use of central nervous system stimulants among adults age 18 to 34 increase between 2005 and 2011.

This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) spotlight is about emergency department visits involving nonmedical use of phamaceuticals by gender among older adolescents age 12 to 17 from year 2010.

This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) spotlight is about emergency department visits involving marijuana among adolescents aged 15 to 17 increase from 2005 to 2010 varied by gender.

This spotlight report describes the risks of combining the drug Ecstasy (also known as MDMA or methylenedioxymethamphetamine) with alcohol. For emergency department patients aged 20 and younger, it provides the number of emergency department visits that involved Ecstasy, and the percentage of Ecstasy-related visits that involved alcohol for the years...