When DAWN went dark: Can the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) fill the surveillance gap left by the discontinued Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)?

The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) was established as a US public health surveillance system in 1972 to monitor drug-related emergency department (ED) visits. DAWN enabled researchers to track and understand trends in drug-related harm to better inform national and local drug policy (Atluri et al., 2014; Jones and McAninch, 2015; Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2015; Zhu and Wu, 2016). DAWN was discontinued in 2011, however, due to concerns with costs and sample representativeness (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2017).
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