Drug Abuse Warning Network
Alternate Titles(s): DAWN
UID: 10024
- Description
- The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is a nationally representative public health surveillance system that continuously monitors drug-related visits to hospital emergency departments (EDs). A DAWN case is any ED visit involving recent drug use that is implicated in the ED visit. The dataset includes demographics, up to 16 drugs involved in the ED visit, toxicology confirmation, route of administration, type of case, and disposition of the patient following the visit.
- Publisher
- Timeframe
- 2004 - Present
- Geographic Coverage
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United States
Access
- Restrictions
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Free to All
- Instructions
- All DAWN data are freely available and downloadable as XLS files.
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