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Drug Abuse Warning Network, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Contact Information

Linda McCaig, Office of Applied Studies
WESTAT
DAWN Operations Center
1650 Research Blvd.
Rockville, MD 20850-3195

301-443-1596 (Voice)
301-443-9847 (FAX)

Internet Resources

info@samhsa.gov

dawninfo.samhsa.gov/

Abstract

Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is a large-scale, ongoing drug abuse data collection system sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The major objectives of the system are to: identify substances associated with drug-related episodes and deaths that are reported to emergency departments and medical examiners; and monitor trends in drug use consequences and to detect new drugs of abuse; and to assess health hazards associated with drug use. The universe for the emergency department component of DAWN is drug-related visits to emergency departments of acute care hospitals in the United States and the universe for the medical examiner component is drug-related deaths reported by 145 medical examiner jurisdictions in 43 metropolitan areas. DAWN is a continuous survey whose primary audience is government agencies, legislators, pharmaceutical manufacturers, universities, and researchers.

Publications

"Advance Reports" of preliminary emergency department data are published semi-annually. "Annual Reports" of final emergency department and medical examiner data are published annually.

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Notes

Audit

Date Entered: 7/1/1998
Date Edited: 4/30/2004
Date Revised: 11/7/2007 12:51:06 PM
Health Referral Number: HR1449
Accession Number: DP91A0671

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