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July 2003
 Emergency Department Trends From the Drug Abuse
Warning Network, Final Estimates 19952002
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration
This issue of Emergency
Department Trends From DAWN
presents final estimates for 2002,
with comparisons to 1995, 2000, and 2001. The revised estimates in
the ED Trends From DAWN
publication series supersede the
estimates published previously for 1995 through 2001.
The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) relies on a
sample of hospitals operating 24-hour emergency departments (EDs)
to capture data on ED visits induced by, or related to substance
abuse. DAWN data do not measure prevalence of drug use in the
population, but the probability sample of hospitals is designed to
produce representative estimates of ED drug episodes and drug
mentions for the coterminous United States and for 21
metropolitan areas. 
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