Starting in 2009, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) gave states the option to collect ACEs data as a part of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS), a national survey of demographics, behaviors, and health indicators [20]. As a product of these surveys, Merrick and colleagues [11] collected the most comprehensive ACEs data to date, acquiring ACEs data from over 200,000 individuals in 23 states from the years 2011 to 2014. Using the same methodology, we have collected ACEs data in the same way.
