Highlights From DAWN: Seattle, 2002

This special report presents findings based on data
submitted by 15 hospitals in the Seattle metropolitan
area for 2002.
Of the 719,000 visits to Seattle area emergency
departments (EDs) in 2002, 1.5 percent (11,003)
were related to drug abuse.
In 2002, the most common drugs involved in
these ED visits were alcohol in combination with
other drugs, cocaine, heroin, narcotic analgesics
(pain relievers), marijuana, and benzodiazepines.
Between 1995 and 2002, mentions of pain
relievers in drug abuse-relat...