Table 5.

Reason for medical toxicology encounter

	N (%)
Intentional exposure-pharmaceutical	3690 (52.4)
Intentional exposure-non-pharmaceutical	775 (11.0)
Unintentional exposure-pharmaceutical	587 (8.3)
Unintentional exposure-non-pharmaceutical	319 (4.5)
Organ system dysfunction	318 (4.5)
Envenomation-snake	239 (3.4)
Addiction medicine consultation	190 (2.7)
Withdrawal-ethanol	167 (2.4)
Withdrawal-opioid	165 (2.3)
Interpretation of toxicology lab data	131 (1.9)
Environmental evaluation	115 (1.6)
Ethanol abuse	89 (1.2)
Occupational evaluation	84 (1.2)
Withdrawal-sedative/hypnotic	47 (0.7)
Envenomation-spider	41 (0.6)
Malicious/criminal	32 (0.5)
Envenomation-other	19 (0.3)
Blank	13 (0.2)
Withdrawal-other	11 (0.2)
Envenomation-scorpion	6 (0.1)
Marine/fish poisoning	3 (< 0.1)
Withdrawal-cocaine/amphetamine	2 (< 0.1)
Total	7043 (100)