Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2003: Area Profiles of Drug-Related Mortality Data from the SAMHSA DAWN project - "This is the first publication of mortality data from the new Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN). Virtually every feature of DAWN, except its name, changed in 2003. In this publication, we refer to "new DAWN" to emphasize these differences. The purpose of this publication is to profile the drug-related deaths reported to DAWN by participating medical examiners and coroners (ME/Cs) for 2003. Each metropolitan area or State is presented separately, with participating and non-participating jurisdictions clearly identified. No system-wide summaries are provided, either in the text or in tables. Our intent is to discourage aggregation of data across areas, because the mortality component of DAWN is not national in scope nor can it be used to derive national estimates. DAWN mortality data for 2003 are not comparable to those for any prior years. In fact, no comparisons of data from the "old" and "new" DAWN are possible. "  
  

NIAAA Issues New Clinician’s Guide for Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much I-Newswire press release - "The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has released a new guide for health care practitioners to help them identify and care for patients with heavy drinking and alcohol use disorders. Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much: A Clinician’s Guide is now available free online and in print, with a pocket version included."