Trends in Drug Abuse Related Hospital Emergency Room Episodes and Medical Examiner Cases for Selected Drugs, DAWN 1976-1985. Topical Data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN).

摘要

The report presents trends in drug abuse data collected through the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) for the ten-year period from 1976 through 1985. It is based on drug abuse-related cases reported by 564 hospital emergency rooms (ERs) and 62 medical examiner (ME) facilities which participated consistently in DAWN throughout the entire period. Drugs mentioned in conjunction with emergency room episodes and medical examiner cases are the focal point of DAWN data. Frequently, more than one drug is mentioned in conjunction with a single case or episode. The trend tables are arrayed according to mentions of particular drugs. The specific drugs selected for inclusion in the report are heroin/morphine, cocaine, heroin and cocaine, marijuana, PCP/PCP combinations, LSD, diazepam, d-propoxyphene, methaqualone, and pentazocine. Within each chapter, tabulations are provided to describe trends in the overall number of mentions of each selected drug, demographic characteristics of patients and decedents, episode and drug use characteristics, and drugs used in combination with the selected substances.