Table 9.

Reason for medical toxicology encounter older adults

	N (%)
Intentional exposure-pharmaceutical	172 (52.3)
Unintentional exposure-pharmaceutical	39 (11.9)
Intentional exposure–non-pharmaceutical	20 (6.1)
Envenomation-snake	17 (5.2)
Organ system dysfunction	17 (5.2)
Unintentional exposure-non-pharmaceutical	14 (4.3)
Environmental evaluation	12 (3.6)
Withdrawal-ethanol	9 (2.7)
Interpretation of toxicology lab data	8 (2.4)
Addiction medicine consultation	6 (1.8)
Withdrawal-opioids	5 (1.5)
Ethanol abuse	3 (0.9)
Envenomation-other	1 (0.3)
Envenomation-scorpion	1 (0.3)
Envenomation-spider	1 (0.3)
Malicious/criminal	1 (0.3)
Occupational evaluation	1 (0.3)
Withdrawal-other	1 (0.3)
Withdrawal–sedative hypnotics	1 (0.3)
Total	329 (100)