DAWN: Drug Abuse Warning Network or Data About Worthless Numbers?
- 1 November 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Analytical Toxicology
- Vol. 4 (6), 269-271
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jat/4.6.269
Abstract
This report presents further data about toxicologic results in 1008 “mentions” to the DAWN (Drug Abuse Warning Network) System from Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center in 1977. Details from some of the blood concentrations found in that retrospective study are presented here for the most commonly reported drugs, both alone and in combination with alcohol. The data suggests caution about inferring drug abuse trends from DAWN data is presently collected.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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