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ensure accuracy. Preventing HIV Transmission: The Role of
Sterile Needles and Bleach Washington, D.C. Its primary mission
is to provide a semiannual community-level assessment of drug
abuse, principally through the collection and analysis of
epidemiologic and ethnographic research data. It provides
current descriptive and analytic information on the nature and
patterns of drug abuse, emerging trends, consequences of drug
abuse, and characteristics of vulnerable populations. Every six
months, the work group meets to share information on recent
trends. Sources of data include: reports from researchers, often
ethnographic, in major metropolitan areas about local
situations, DAWN data on drug-related deaths, as reported by
medical examiners, DAWN emergency room reports of drug-related
medical emergencies, treatment admissions data wh