Office of National Drug Control Policy -- 2003 National Drug Control Strategy

Table 76. Estimated Number of Emergency Department Methamphetamine/Speed Mentions, by Metropolitan Area, 1993–2001

Metro area	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Total U.S.	9,926	17,537	15,933	11,002	17,154	11,486	10,447	13,505	14,923
Atlanta	55	95	147	135	214	162	83	109	172
Baltimore	5	4	4	6	7	6	10	6	6
Boston	15	4	7	—	13	6	12	14	14
Buffalo	7	8	6	9	8	9	7	5	4
Chicago	20	17	34	28	29	31	22	—	45
Dallas	79	152	203	115	159	186	100	135	111
Denver	55	139	175	105	292	120	101	110	98
Detroit	24	17	15	22	—	0	—	—	—
LA-Long Beach	1,226	1,399	1,276	1,268	1,229	786	910	1,375	1,517
Miami-Hialeah	4	8	5	9	10	16	9	15	27
Minn.-St. Paul	42	57	93	108	217	109	112	153	321
New Orleans	10	12	18	22	26	25	23	27	—
New York	16	21	23	21	32	36	17	31	—
Newark	1	—	—	—	—	7	—	6	0
Philadelphia	110	91	91	66	101	48	47	67	60
Phoenix	481	802	777	725	800	446	341	600	604
St. Louis	29	51	76	39	67	66	104	162	115
San Diego	929	911	686	666	976	721	584	747	673
San Francisco	992	1,301	1,106	934	1,012	616	554	591	611
Seattle	177	309	258	195	479	266	353	540	395
Washington, D.C	20	33	24	11	—	16	33	62	24
National panel	5,628	12,106	10,909	6,518	11,483	7,808	7,025	8,750	10,126
— Estimate does not meet standard of precision. 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, Office of Applied Studies, Emergency Department Trends From the Drug Abuse Warning Network, Final Estimates 1994–2001 (August 2002). Data for 1993 is from Year-End 2000 Emergency Department Data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network (July 2001).