Mid-Year Preliminary Estimates from the 1996 Drug Abuse Warning Network

• NCJ Number: 172336
• Author(s): J Greenblatt
• Date Published: 1997
• Length: 83 pages
• Contract Number(s): 283-96-0003
• Sponsoring Agency: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin (SAMHSA)
• Corporate Author: CSR Incorporated
• Sale Source: SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Report (Annual/Periodic)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: DCC. Drug Abuse Warning Network Series D-2

Annotation

This report contains preliminary data for 1995 and the first 6 months of 1996 and final annual and semi-annual estimates of drug-related emergency department (ED) episodes for 1988 through 1994, from the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN).

Abstract

The report presents data on semi-annual trends in total drug-related episodes, cocaine-related episodes, heroin-related episodes, other illicit drug-related episodes, and trends in selected metropolitan areas. In the first half of 1996, there were 230,900 drug-related hospital ED episodes, a decrease of 15 percent from the first half of 1995 (271,700). Cocaine-related episodes showed no statistically significant change between the first half of 1995 and the first half of 1996. Heroin-related episodes did not change during the same period. Methamphetamine-related episodes decreased 59 percent from first-half 1995 to first-half 1996. It is important to recognize that DAWN data do not measure the prevalence of drug use, but rather the health consequences of drug use expressed as ED visits. Tables, figures, notes, appendixes