Boston: Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits, 2004-2011 - Nonmedical Use of Pharmaceuticals

Description

Excel file with estimates, rates, relative standard errors, trends and confidence intervals for all drug-related emergency department (ED) visits involving the nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals (prescription and over-the-counter medications and dietary supplements) for the Boston metropolitan area, covering 2004-2011. Nonmedical use includes patients who took a higher than prescribed or recommended dose of their own medication, patients who took a pharmaceutical prescribed for another person, malicious poisoning of the patient by another individual, and documented substance abuse involving pharmaceuticals.

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21 Visit the original government dataset for complete information, documentation, and data access. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/report/boston-drug-related-emergency-department-visits-2004-2011-nonmedical-use-pharmaceuticals

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  • pharmaceutical-misuse
  • boston-metro
  • drug-overdose
  • samhsa
  • ed-visits

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