Table 6.

Reason for medical toxicology encounter

	N (%)
Intentional exposure—pharmaceutical	4244 (52.3)
Intentional exposure—nonpharmaceutical	891 (11.0)
Unintentional exposure—pharmaceutical	664 (8.2)
Organ system dysfunction	344 (4.2)
Withdrawal—opioid	327 (4.0)
Unintentional exposure—nonpharmaceutical	279 (3.4)
Unknown	258 (3.2)
Envenomation—snake	230 (2.8)
Withdrawal—ethanol	205 (2.5)
Interpretation of toxicology data	156 (1.9)
Environmental evaluation	138 (1.7)
Occupational evaluation	126 (1.6)
Ethanol abuse	102 (1.3)
Withdrawal—sedative/hypnotic	59 (0.7)
Envenomation—spider	31 (0.4)
Malicious/criminal	24 (0.3)
Withdrawal—other	10 (0.1)
Envenomation—scorpion	10 (0.1)
Envenomation—other	7 (0.1)
Marine	5 (0.1)
Withdrawal—cocaine/amphetamine	4 (0.1)
Not documented	1 (0.0)
Total	8115 (100)