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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...

This short report uses 2002 to 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess heroin-related trends in the United States among those aged 12 or older. Topics covered include past year heroin use, dependence and abuse, receipt of substance use treatment for herion use, heroin initiation, perceived...

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...

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...

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 study summarizes results presented in...

This short report uses 2002 to 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess trends in past month smokeless tobacco initiation and use by gender and age group among those aged 12 or older.

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...

This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) short report shows the estimated number of emergency room visits involving buprenorphine between 2005 and 2011. Buprenorphine is used to treat dependence on heroin and narcotic pain medications. The report also shows buprenorphine-related visits broken out by non-medical use, adverse reactions and seeking detoxification...

This Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) short report shows the estimated number of emergency department visits involving phencyclidine (PCP) between 2005 and 2011. The report specifically talks about age groups, gender and other drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, heroin and pharmaceuticals and trends over time.

This report uses 2003 to 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess past year need for and receipt of alcohol use treatment and illicit drug use treatment among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders aged 12 or older in comparison to persons of other racial and ethnic...

This report uses 2005 to 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess past year and past month nonmedical use of prescription-type drugs among persons aged 12 or older for rural non-metropolitan counties, urbanized non-metropolitan counties and metropolitan counties. Results are shown by age group, gender, and...

This report uses 2003 to 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess past year need for and receipt of alcohol use treatment and illicit drug use treatment among African Americans or Blacks aged 12 or older in comparison to persons of other racial and ethnic groups...

This report focuses on trends between 2002 and 2011 from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) in risk perception and substance use among adolescents aged 12 to 17. Adolescents evaluated whether people risk physical and other harm when they drink alcohol, use marijuana, use cocaine, use LSD...

This report uses 2003 to 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess past year need for and receipt of alcohol use treatment and illicit drug use treatment among American Indian or Alaska Natives aged 12 or older in comparison to persons of other racial and ethnic...

This report uses 2003 to 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) to assess past year need for and receipt of substance use treatment among Hispanics aged 12 or older in comparison to non-Hispanics.