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Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)

Reports & Tables from DAWN Emergency Department Component

Reports & Tables from DAWN Mortality Component

The DAWN Report — Short Reports on Special Topics

DAWN Methodology Reports

The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is an ongoing drug abuse data collection system sponsored by SAMHSA’s Office of Applied Studies.  DAWN collects data from: (1) hospital emergency departments (EDs) and (2) medical examiners (MEs).  The DAWN ED component relies on a nationally representative sample of hospital EDs to produce information on the number and characteristics of drug abuse related visits to such EDs in the coterminous United States and in 21 metropolitan areas.  The DAWN mortality component produces information on drug abuse related deaths, based on reports from participating medical examiners.  DAWN cases (drug-related ED visits or deaths) include detailed information about the abuse of illegal drugs or legal drugs used for nonmedical purposes.

The DAWN Report — Short Reports on Special Topics

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The DAWN Report:  Narcotic Analgesics (PDF format)
  • Characteristics of narcotic analgesic ED visits:  2001
  • Trends in narcotic analgesic ED visits:  1994-2001

 

THE DAWN REPORT:  Club Drugs, 2001 Update

  • Club drugs included: GHB, Ketamine, LSD, Ecstasy, and Methamphetamine 
  • National trends in club drugs in hospital emergency department (ED) visits
  • Club drugs in multi-drug ED visits: 2001
  • Characteristics of patients
  • Variations across metropolitan areas

THE DAWN REPORT: Major Drugs of Abuse in ED Visits, 2001 Update

  • Four major drugs of abuse:  cocaine, heroin/morphine, marijuana/hashish, methamphetamine/speed
  • Rates of emergency department mentions per 100,000 population, 2001
  • Estimates for 21 metropolitan areas and the continental U.S.
Major Drugs of Abuse

THE DAWN REPORT:   Major Drugs of Abuse

  • Rates of emergency department mentions per 100,000 population, 2000
  • Four major drugs of abuse:  cocaine, heroin/morphine, marijuana/hashish, methamphetamine/speed
  • Estimates for 21 metropolitan areas and the continental U.S.

 
Club Drugs

THE DAWN REPORT:  Club Drugs

  • Includes Ecstasy, GHB, Ketamine, Rohypnol, Methamphetamine, LSD
  • 1994-1999 visits to hospital emergency departments
  • 1994-1998 deaths reported by medical examiners

Updated Club Drug Tables  (1994 to 2000)

DAWN Emergency Department REPORTS & TABLES

DAWN reports and tables are provided in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) Get Acrobat Reader or Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
Some files have been compressed (into *.zip files) for easier downloading.
new Please Note: This series of DAWN reports has been redesigned

Reports & Tables

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Additional findings and information about DAWN are available at http://DAWNinfo.samhsa.gov

  newED TRENDS FROM DAWN, PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES JANUARY-JUNE 2002

Tables (Microsoft Excel files):

Tables of estimates of drug-related ED visits and mentions:

Tables of estimated rates of drug-related ED visits and mentions per 100,000 population:

Drug Indexes (Microsoft Excel files):

Download sets of tables:

All published tables (single compressed *.zip file)

Tables of Relative Standard Errors (RSEs) (single *.zip file)

Tables for metropolitan areas (Microsoft Excel format in compressed *.zip files):

DAWN Series D-22, DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 03-3779, Published 12/2002
  • Trends in:
    • Major substances of abuse
    • Other substances of abuse, by drug category and drug name
  • Preliminary estimates for Jan.-Jun. 2002
  • Annual estimates for 1994-2001
  • Semi-annual estimates Jul.-Dec. 1997 to Jan.-Jun. 2002
  • Estimates for the coterminous U.S. and for 21 major metropolitan areas
 
2001 Drug Abuse Warning Network Detailed Tables (PDF format, 804 KB) Web only document

ED TRENDS FROM DAWN, FINAL ESTIMATES 1994-2001

Tables (Microsoft Excel files):

Tables of estimates of drug-related ED visits and mentions:

Tables of estimated rates of drug-related ED visits and mentions per 100,000 population:

Drug Indexes (Microsoft Excel files):

Download sets of tables:

All published tables (single compressed *.zip file)

Tables of Relative Standard Errors (RSEs) (single *.zip file)

Tables for metropolitan areas (Microsoft Excel format in compressed *.zip files):
  • Trends in:
    • Major substances of abuse
    • Other substances of abuse, by drug category and drug name
  • Final estimates for 2001
  • Annual estimates for 1994-2001
  • Semi-annual estimates Jan.-Jun. 1997 to Jul.-Dec. 2001
  • Estimates for the coterminous U.S. and for 21 major metropolitan areas

ED TRENDS FROM DAWN,
PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES JANUARY-JUNE 2001 WITH REVISED ESTIMATES 1994-2000  

Go to the Table of Contents (starts on page 3) for links to major sections and tables in the ED trends report.DAWN Series D-20, DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 02-3634, Published 2/2002

PLEASE NOTE:
This report has been redesigned and expanded. Estimates for 1994-2000 that were published previously as final have been revised as a result of improvements to the underlying data. Estimates published in this report supersede those published previously.

  • Trends in:
    • Major substances of abuse
    • Other substances of abuse, by drug category and drug name
  • Revised estimates for 1994-2000
  • Semi-annual estimates Jul.-Dec. 1996 to Jan.-Jun. 2001
  • Estimates for the coterminous U.S. and for 21 major metropolitan areas

DAWN METHODOLOGY REPORTS

DAWN reports are provided in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) Get Acrobat Reader

Reports & Tables

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Drug Abuse Warning Network:  Development of a New Design -- Methodology Report  (PDF format)

Methodology Series M-4, DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 02-3754, Published 08/2002 

 

 Results of a 2-year evaluation of design alternatives for DAWN.

 Recommendations from this evaluation form the foundation for a new DAWN design, which will be initiated in the field in 2003.

 

DAWN SAMPLE DESIGN AND ESTIMATION PROCEDURES: TECHNICAL REPORT

Methodology Series M-2, DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 98-3178, Published 11/1997 

Not available on-line. For paper copy, order publication number BKD249 from http://www.health.org/about/Questions.htm

 Design of DAWN sample of emergency departments instituted in 1988

 

MORTALITY DATA FROM DAWN

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new Please Note: This series of DAWN reports has been redesigned

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new MORTALITY DATA FROM DAWN, 2001

DAWN Series D-23, DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 03-3781, Published 2/2003

 
  • Deaths that were induced by or related to drug abuse
  • Profiles of drug-related deaths for 36 metropolitan areas
  • Spotlights on drug-related deaths in 28 jurisdictions (counties)
  • Abbreviated profiles for 9 metropolitan areas with few cases

 

new MORTALITY DATA FROM DAWN, 2000

DAWN Series D-19, DHHS Publication No. (SMA) 02-3633, Published 2/2002

PLEASE NOTE:
Since national estimates of drug abuse-related mortality are not possible from DAWN, this report has been redesigned to focus exclusively on metropolitan areas.

  • Deaths that were induced by or related to drug abuse
  • Profiles of drug-related deaths for 36 metropolitan areas
  • Spotlights on drug-related deaths in 32 jurisdictions (counties)
  • Abbreviated profiles for 7 metropolitan areas with few cases
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