Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN): National Estimates From Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits, 2023

In 2024, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) published a report with national estimates of drug-related emergency department (ED) visits in 2023. DAWN identified 138,859 (unweighted) drug-related ED visits from 53 participating hospitals. These data were analyzed to generate nationally representative weighted estimates for (1) all drug-related ED visits, (2) the top substances involved in drug-related ED visits, (3) opioid-related ED visits by type, and (4) polysubstance-related ED visits . . .