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The DAWN Report: Emergency Department Visits Involving Ecstasy

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The number of drug-related emergency department (ED) visits involving Ecstasy increased significantly from 10,220 visits in 2004 to 17,865 visits in 2008, a 74.8 percent increase. In 2008, most of these visits (69.3 percent) were made by patients aged 18 to 29. An estimated 77.8 percent of these ED visits involved Ecstasy in combination with alcohol or other drugs (including pharmaceuticals or illicit drugs); in fact, 31.3 percent involved one other drug, 15.0 percent involved two other drugs, 14.0 percent involved three other drugs, and 17.5 percent involved four or more other drugs. Ecstasy-related ED visits among patients aged 21 or older were more likely than those made by patients aged 20 or younger also to involve alcohol (50.1 vs. 20.4 percent) or cocaine (43.4 vs. 14.7 percent).

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This Short Report The DAWN Report: Emergency Department Visits Involving Ecstasy is based on the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) conducted by SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older.

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