US: SAMHSA Releases Drug Abuse Warning Network Report – Findings from Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits, 2022

The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) 2022 Findings on Drug-Related Emergency Related Visits presents national estimates of drug- related emergency department (ED) visits. In 2022, there were an estimated total of 714,521 drug-related ED visits in the United States. The DAWN data were analyzed to generate nationally representative weighted estimates (1) for all drug-related ED visits, (2) for the top drugs involved in drug-related ED visits, (3) for different opioid types involved in ED visits, (4) to describe polysubstance in ED visits, and (5) the identification of newly mentioned drugs in 2022.

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