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<strong>EPIDEMIOLOGIC</strong> TRENDS IN <strong>DRUG</strong> <strong>ABUSE</strong>—St. Louis<br />
Exhibit 1a. Combined Indicators for Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, and Methamphetamine in St. Louis:<br />
1996−June 2004 (Cont’d)<br />
Indicator Cocaine Heroin Marijuana<br />
Treatment Admissions Data<br />
Methamphetamine<br />
Illicit Drug Admissions (%) (2003) 34.6 10.1 27.2 4.7<br />
Illicit Drug Admissions (%) (1H2004) 33.6 10.8 29.6 4.2<br />
Gender (%) (1H2004)<br />
Male<br />
Female<br />
Age (%) (1H2004)<br />
12–17<br />
18–25<br />
26–34<br />
35 and older<br />
Race/Ethnicity (%) (1H2004)<br />
White<br />
African-American<br />
Hispanic<br />
Route of Administration (%) (1H2004)<br />
Smoking<br />
Intranasal<br />
Injecting<br />
Oral<br />
54.9<br />
45.1<br />
0.6<br />
8.0<br />
24.0<br />
67.4<br />
26.1<br />
73.3<br />
1.1<br />
90.7<br />
5.1<br />
1.7<br />
1.6<br />
62.5<br />
37.5<br />
0.8<br />
34.9<br />
25.6<br />
38.6<br />
40.1<br />
59.0<br />
0.9<br />
4.1<br />
37.3<br />
52.9<br />
1.0<br />
SOURCES: DAWN, OAS, SAMHSA; DAWN Live!, OAS, SAMHSA, updated 12/2004; TEDS database<br />
Exhibit 1b. Other Combined Indicators for Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, and Methamphetamine in St. Louis:<br />
2002–2004<br />
Indicator Cocaine Heroin Marijuana<br />
Methamphetamine<br />
and Other Drugs<br />
Multisubstance<br />
Older users com- Older users com- alcohol Marijuana com-<br />
Combinations<br />
bine with heroin, bine with cocaine,<br />
monly used in<br />
alcohol<br />
alcohol<br />
combination<br />
Market Data (2002–2003) Powder $100– $20/cap or foil; $10 Sinsemilla $700– Methamphetamine<br />
$125/g, 70% pure; per number-5 gel $1,800/lb, 20% $100–$120/g,<br />
Crack $20/rock, capsule; $1.00– THC; Imported Mexican (20–30%)<br />
50–90% pure; $1.93/mg pure— $2,000−$4,000/lb and local (70–80%<br />
eightball $300 depending if MBT,<br />
pure); hydromor-<br />
SA, SWA, $250–<br />
phone$30–$75/4- $600/g, 13.9–<br />
mg pill; LSD blot-<br />
23.2% pure<br />
ters $2–$7/35 microgram,OxyContin<br />
$40/80 mg<br />
Qualitative Data Readily available, Younger users, 1/3 Readily available, Rural/suburban<br />
urban choice younger than 25 2/3 in treatment users of ampheta-<br />
younger than 25 mine<br />
Other Data of Note N/R 1 Primarily Mexican N/R Methamphetamine<br />
black tar; young<br />
lab seizures pla-<br />
users smoke/snort<br />
teaued; major producers<br />
are superlabs–controlled<br />
by<br />
Hispanic groups<br />
1 N/R=Not reported.<br />
SOURCES: DEA; client ethnographic information<br />
74.0<br />
26.0<br />
25.5<br />
40.1<br />
20.3<br />
14.1<br />
41.1<br />
57.9<br />
1.0<br />
95.8<br />
0.3<br />
0.1<br />
1.6<br />
54.2<br />
45.8<br />
4.4<br />
32.6<br />
36.5<br />
26.5<br />
98.9<br />
0.2<br />
0.0<br />
47.0<br />
14.9<br />
33.3<br />
4.0<br />
Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, Vol. II, January 2005
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