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Drug Abuse Warning Network

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Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN),
a system of collecting information about admissions to emergency treatment facilities for drug abuse.


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In the 2002 Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) report, marijuana was the only substance involved in 2 overdoses, 35 deaths by suicide, 53 accidental deaths and 69 other drug-related deaths.
His study gathered data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network, which draws on in-hospital emergency records and coroner's data, and from the National Vital Statistics System, which provides poisoning information from death certificate data.
According to the Drug Abuse Warning Network, Cocaine was involved in over 380,000 emergency room visits in 2004 alone.
 
 
 
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