This section of the Web site highlights new and interesting data and statistics about poison prevention.

• Chart showing completed toll-free calls to poison centers by year and month.
  
  
• SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older.
  
  
• Misuse of Over-the-Counter Cough and Cold Medications among
  Persons Aged 12 to 25 (SAMHSA/Office of Applied Studies)
  
  
• CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control administers a Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System, WISQARS™ (pronounced "whiskers,”). WISQARS™ Fatal is an interactive database system that provides injury-related mortality data useful for research and for making informed public health decisions. WISQARS offers three types of reports:  mortality reports, leading causes of death reports, and years of potential life lost reports (YPPL).
  
  December 14, 2007: Increases in Age-Group-Specific Mortality–
  United States, 1999-2004 (CDC - National Center for Injury Prevention and Control)
  
  December 13, 2007: New CDC Study Finds 5.5 Percent Increase in
  Injury Mortality from 1999 to 2004 (CDC - National Center for Injury Prevention and Control)
  
  
• The 2006 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System shows that over 4 million calls were made to the nation's 61 poison centers. The substance most frequently involved in all human exposures were analgesics (pain relievers). The most common exposures in children less than age 6 were cosmetics/personal care products. Access the report.
  
  
  

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