Hi David
Regarding your comments below: Does this mean that a person going to an
emergency room for, say, a fever and an unexplained body rash (that turns
out to be Lyme Disease) and who tests positive for heroin, marijuana or
whatever in a urine screening becomes part of statistics for emergency room
admissions for that drug? If so, can you point me to anything that would
corroborate this?
Thanks,
Paul Okami
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From: "David Epstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE:[tips] Teens and marijuana
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, beth benoit went:
Are we certain that there are increased (or any) admissions to the ER for
"smoking a few joints"?
Now that you mention it: nope.
Michael was probably referring to something like this:
<http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/ongoing/marijuana.html>
"In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of
emergency room mentions of marijuana use. From 1993-2000, the number
of emergency room marijuana mentions more than tripled."
That factoid is most likely from the DAWN dataset, in which a
"mention" of marijuana reflects a positive urine screen. It needn't
have any connection to the circumstances of the ER admission.
--David Epstein
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