## Table 76. Estimated Number of Emergency Department Heroin/Morphine Mentions, by Metropolitan Area, 1993--2002

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  **Metro Area**  **1993**   **1994**   **1995**   **1996**   **1997**   **1998**   **1999**   **2000**   **2001**   **2002**

  Total U.S.      63,232     63,158     69,556     72,890     70,712     75,688     82,192     94,804     93,064     93,519

  Atlanta         250        443        404        388        384        473        415        485        848        732

  Baltimore       5,719      7,471      8,207      8,093      5,863      6,711      6,999      5,405      4,481      4,715

  Boston          2,319      2,563      2,956      2,729      2,500      2,738      2,861      3,867      4,358      3,999

  Buffalo         279        314        379        443        468        538        522        681        607        785

  Chicago         3,581      4,737      4,702      6,268      8,602      9,316      9,629      12,454     11,902     12,982

  Dallas          297        242        264        331        505        500        428        478        443        304

  Denver          276        472        463        336        465        492        629        666        769        855

  Detroit         2,380      2,160      2,390      3,188      3,028      2,879      2,653      3,328      3,870      3,881

  L.A.-Long Beach 3,724      2,928      3,060      3,278      2,471      2,601      2,923      3,177      2,878      2,525

  Miami-Hialeah   251        258        333        388        591        767        917        1,452      1,666      1,784

  Minn.-St. Paul  138        65         83         105        138        145        182        228        338        426

  New Orleans     140        191        263        303        422        510        649        982        530        617

  New York        11,351     11,129     10,706     11,132     9,481      9,218      9,302      11,009     10,644     10,397

  Newark          4,526      4,493      5,681      5,386      4,364      5,072      4,733      4,399      3,718      3,731

  Philadelphia    2,478      2,385      3,839      3,864      3,712      3,445      4,087      4,661      5,362      4,918

  Phoenix         487        472        485        632        827        873        839        841        777        672

  St. Louis       215        392        369        489        447        622        851        1,084      1,309      1,167

  San Diego       842        687        675        970        911        984        1,063      1,031      733        708

  San Francisco   3,694      3,654      3,113      3,132      2,719      2,360      3,050      2,756      2,790      2,672

  Seattle         1,727      2,137      2,023      2,418      2,894      2,421      2,470      2,490      1,927      2,779

  Washington, DC  1,414      1,254      1,295      1,527      1,689      2,097      1,771      1,946      1,888      1,597

  National panel  17,146     14,711     17,866     17,490     18,231     20,926     26,220     31,384     31,226     31,273
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> Note: These estimates are based on a representative sample of
> non-Federal short-stay hospitals with 24-hour emergency departments in
> the coterminous United States.
>
> Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,
> *Emergency Department Trends From the Drug Abuse Warning Network,
> Final Estimates 1995--2002* (July 2003). Data for 1993 are from
> *Year-End 2000 Emergency Department Data from the Drug Abuse Warning
> Network* (July 2001). Data for 1994 are from *Emergency Department
> Trends From the Drug Abuse Warning Network, Final Estimates
> 1994--2001* (August 2002).