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African Americans actually use illicit drugs at a higher rate than White Americans, according to SAMHSA.


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Source: http://www.samhsa.gov/data/nsduh/2k11results/nsduhresults2011.htm

How can this chart be right when more whites use meth? Your chart shows blacks leading on all fronts. Also, make note your chart is from 2011, my info, was last updated April of this year.


Race/ethnicity: The largest numbers methamphetamine users are white. However, the highest rates of methamphetamine use during the past year were those for Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders (2.2%), American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.7%), and person who reported 2 or more races (1.9%). Past-year use among whites (0.7%) and Hispanics (0.5%) was higher than among blacks (including African Americans) (0.2%). 4.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/behavior/methuse.html

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Your statement or conclusion:

African Americans actually use illicit drugs at a higher rate than white Americans

is misleading La Keesha T.

It implies that more black folk use illicit drugs than white folk.

For that to be true, 50% of the black population would have to use illicit drugs, roughly 20 million blacks; while 8.7% of the white population, roughly 19.4 million whites, are currently using illicit drugs for the past month in 2011, respectively.


The survey reflects:

Among blacks or African Americans, the percentage using illicit drugs in the past month was 9.7 percent in 2002, 8.7 percent in both 2003 and 2004, 9.7 percent in 2005, 9.8 percent in 2006, 9.5 percent in 2007, 10.0 percent in 2008, 9.7 percent in 2009, 10.7 percent in 2010, and 10.0 percent in 2011. The difference between the 2011 estimate and the 2004 estimate was statistically significant.

Among whites, the percentage using illicit drugs in the past month was 8.5 percent in 2002, 8.3 percent in 2003, 8.1 percent in both 2004 and 2005, 8.5 percent in 2006, 8.2 percent in 2007, 8.3 percent in 2008, 8.8 percent in 2009, 9.1 percent in 2010, and 8.7 percent in 2011. The differences between the 2011 estimate and the 2004 and 2005 estimates were statistically significant.


The rate of usage between blacks and whites or the higher rate difference, is only 1.3 percentage points; while the population difference is 19.4 million whites using illicit drugs, and only 4.0 million blacks use illicit drugs.

Nearly 5 times as many whites use illicit drugs to blacks, a ratio of approximately 5 to 1.

Excellent point brutha Clyde. Also, this chart does not show how more attention is paid to urban areas vs the suburbs.

Heroin crosses all social lines, although white kids are the fastest-growing demographic using it, experts say. Heroin is most popular in the wealthier suburbs of greater Kansas City, says Lauren Moyer, the clinical director of Behavioral Health for Swope Health Services. “In fact, white women 30 or younger are the fastest-rising group of users in our area.”
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/26/4369823/heroin-cheap-easy-to-score-and.html

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