CEWG January 09 Full Report - National Institute on Drug Abuse

Section IV. Across <strong>CEWG</strong> Areas: Treatment Admissions, Forensic Laboratory Analysis Data, and Average Drug Price and Purity Data
Section IV. Across <strong>CEWG</strong> Areas:
Treatment Admissions, Forensic
Laboratory Analysis Data, and
Average Drug Price and Purity Data
Cocaine/Crack
• Treatment admissions data for the first half of 2008 revealed that treatment admissions for
primary cocaine/crack, as a percentage of total drug treatment admissions, including primary
alcohol admissions, ranked first in frequency in 2 of 21 reporting <strong>CEWG</strong> areas: Miami/Dade
County and Philadelphia (section II, table 2).
• Cocaine was the drug most frequently identified by forensic laboratories in 13 of 22 reporting
<strong>CEWG</strong> areas. Based on forensic laboratory analysis of drug items identified in the first half of
2008, cocaine/crack ranked first in four of five areas in the southern region (Miami/Dade County,
Baltimore City, Atlanta, and Washington, DC), two of three areas in the northeastern region
(New York City and Philadelphia), and six of nine areas in the western region (Albuquerque, San
Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, and Texas). Cocaine also ranked first in one of the five
<strong>CEWG</strong> areas in the midwestern region, Minneapolis/St. Paul, in frequency of drug items identified
(section II, table 1; appendix table 2).
Treatment Admission Data on
Cocaine/Crack
Table 3 presents the most recent data from 21
<strong>CEWG</strong> areas on primary cocaine treatment
admissions as a proportion of total admissions,
including those for alcohol (see also appendix
table 1). In all but three cases, the reporting
period covers <strong>January</strong> through June, 2008; therefore,
it will be referred to as the first half of 2008
(1H 2008).
Miami/Dade County had the highest percentage
(37.6 percent) of primary cocaine admissions,
followed by Atlanta and Detroit (24.6 percent
each), Philadelphia (24.3 percent), and Texas
(23.0 percent). The lowest proportions of primary
cocaine treatment admissions, including primary
alcohol admissions, were observed for Hawai‘i
(4.4 percent), Maine (6.7 percent), and San Diego
(6.9 percent).
Based on total treatment admissions for
the first half of 2008 reporting period, including
those for primary alcohol problems, cocaine
ranked first in Miami/Dade County and Philadelphia,
and ranked second in 4 of the 21 reporting
<strong>CEWG</strong> areas: Atlanta, Baltimore City, San Francisco,
and Seattle (section II, table 2).
Forensic Laboratory Data on
Cocaine/Crack
In the first half of 2008, cocaine was the drug
most frequently reported for 13 of the 22 <strong>CEWG</strong>
areas shown on the map in section II, figure 12
and figure 15 below (see also section II, table 1).
Cocaine items as a percentage of the total drug
items reported in the NFLIS system were particularly
high in the Miami/Dade MSA (64.7 percent)
and Atlanta (58.9 percent). The lowest reported
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