Table 5.

Reason for medical toxicology encounter.

	N (%)
Intentional exposure—pharmaceutical	3550 (52.4)
Intentional exposure—non-pharmaceutical	909 (12.7)
Unintentional exposure—pharmaceutical	513 (7.1)
Unintentional exposure—non-pharmaceutical	312 (4.3)
Addiction medicine consultation	475 (6.6)
Organ system dysfunction	279 (3.9)
Envenomation—snake	253 (3.5)
Withdrawal—ethanol	183 (2.5)
Withdrawal—opioid	152 (2.1)
Interpretation of toxicology lab data	121 (1.7)
Environmental evaluation	111 (1.5)
Ethanol abuse	92 (1.3)
Occupational evaluation	65 (0.9)
Withdrawal—sedative/hypnotic	48 (0.7)
Malicious/criminal	36 (0.5)
Envenomation—spider	35 (0.5)
Withdrawal—other	18 (0.3)
Withdrawal—cocaine/amphetamine	6 (0.1)
Envenomation—scorpion	4 (0.1)
Envenomation—other	7 (0.1)
Marine /fish poisoning	5 (0.1)
Blank	3 (0.0)
Total	7177 (100)