ICD-9 Code E850.0
Accidental poisoning by heroin
Not Valid for Submission
E850.0 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of accidental poisoning by heroin. This code was replaced on September 30, 2015 by its ICD-10 equivalent.
| ICD-9: | E850.0 |
| Short Description: | Acc poison-heroin |
| Long Description: | Accidental poisoning by heroin |
Convert E850.0 to ICD-10
The following crosswalk between ICD-9 to ICD-10 is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:
Code Classification
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External causes of injury (V)
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Accidental poisoning by drugs, medicinal substances, and biologicals (E850-E858)
- E850 Accidental poisoning by analgesics, antipyretics, and antirheumatics
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Accidental poisoning by drugs, medicinal substances, and biologicals (E850-E858)
Information for Medical Professionals
Information for Patients
Heroin
Heroin is a white or brown powder or a black, sticky goo. It's an opioid drug made from morphine, a natural substance in the seedpod of the Asian poppy plant. It can be mixed with water and injected with a needle. Heroin can also be smoked or snorted up the nose. All of these ways of taking heroin send it to the brain very quickly. This makes it very addictive.
Major health problems from heroin include miscarriages, heart infections, and death from overdose. People who inject the drug also risk getting infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS and hepatitis.
Regular use of heroin can lead to tolerance. This means users need more and more drug to have the same effect. At higher doses over time, the body becomes dependent on heroin. If dependent users stop heroin, they have withdrawal symptoms. These symptoms include restlessness, muscle and bone pain, diarrhea and vomiting, and cold flashes with goose bumps.
NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse
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ICD-9 Footnotes
General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-9 and ICD-10 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
- Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.