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
United States
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Access

Restrictions
Free to All
Instructions
All DAWN data are freely available and downloadable as XLS files.
Data Type
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