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Notably, this publication gives figures for each drug presence or mention i.e. a mention of marijuana may mean marijuana only, or with alcohol and/or other drugs. No way to guess prevalence of only marijuana. DAWN also does not report alcohol-only visits for those aged 21 or above (why?). And a mention of multiple drugs adds to the tally of each drug involved, so the individual numbers aren't very useful as a gauge of a drug's relative likelihood in sending you to the ED.
For some reason, the latest DAWN dataset available for public analysis is from 1997. In that year, of 64,607 mentions of marijuana, 14,096 involved marijuana only, as far as I can tell* i.e. 22%. For cocaine, out of 161,084 mentions, 49,467 for cocaine only (again AFAICT), i.e. 31%.
*I filtered out presence of other major drugs (alcohol, pot, heroin..etc but not all since there are lot of them to type in :-) )
Posted by: daksya | May 10, 2006 06:37 PM