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EPIDEMIOLOGIC TRENDS IN DRUG ABUSE—New Orleans
Exhibit 3. Treatment Admissions for Selected Drugs in Eight Parishes Outside Orleans Parish, by Percent:
2004
Drug
Bossier Calcasieu
East Baton
Rouge
Parish
Lafayette Ouachita Rapides
St.
Tammany Terrebonne
Cocaine 26.7 15.8 45.5 32.3 24.8 26.5 28.4 17.3
Heroin 0.0 0.3 0.8 0.9 0.3 0.7 3.3 0.3
Other Opiates 8.9 11.4 5.0 11.5 4.7 11.4 21.1 7.5
Marijuana 15.4 30.0 13.2 13.3 26.6 17.5 17.3 37.3
Methamphetamine 6.2 4.2 2.1 1.0 3.8 6.7 1.6 1.0
Alcohol 40.8 30.7 32.6 37.8 36.1 32.9 24.7 34.2
Other Drugs 2.0 7.6 0.8 3.2 3.7 4.3 3.6 2.4
Total (N=) 1 (292) (983) (3,432) (885) (914) (1,295) (1,026) (986)
1 Excludes a few admissions for whom a primary drug was not reported.
SOURCE: Louisiana State Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Exhibit 4. Numbers and Percentages of Selected Illicit 1 ED Drug Reports (Unweighted 2 ): January–June 2004
Drug Number Percent
Cocaine 494 44.3
Amphetamines 10 4.5
Heroin 185 16.6
Marijuana 306 27.5
MDMA 35 3.1
Other Illicit Drugs 44 3.9
1 Excludes “Alcohol Only” reports for patients younger than age 21.
2 The unweighted data are from 8–11 New Orleans EDs reporting to DAWN. All DAWN cases are reviewed for quality control. Based
on this review, cases may be corrected or deleted and, therefore, are subject to change.
SOURCE: DAWN Live!, OAS, SAMHSA, Updated 12/13/2004
Exhibit 5. Numbers of Analyzed Items and Percentages of All Items Tested 1 in New Orleans, by Drug:
FY 2004
Drug Number Percent
Cannabis 2,094 52.8
Cocaine 1,512 38.1
Heroin 260 6.6
Other Opiates 30 0.8
Benzodiazepines 39 1.0
MDMA/MDA 17 0.4
Methamphetamine/Amphetamine 8 0.2
1 A total of 3,964 items were reported.
SOURCE: NFLIS, DEA
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