CEWG January 09 Full Report - National Institute on Drug Abuse

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Section IV. Across <strong>CEWG</strong> Areas: Treatment Admissions, Forensic Laboratory Analysis Data, and Average Drug Price and Purity Data Benzodiazepines/Depressants Treatment Admission Data on Benzodiazepines In most <strong>CEWG</strong> area treatment data systems, benzodiazepines are included with other depressants, barbiturates, and sedative/hypnotics; these admissions continued to account for small proportions of total treatment admissions. However, some <strong>CEWG</strong> areas note that benzodiazepines or sedative/hypnotics are secondary or tertiary drugs of abuse among some treatment admissions. Forensic Laboratory Data on Benzodiazepines Three benzodiazepine-type items—alprazolam, clonazepam, and diazepam—were the most frequently reported benzodiazepines identified by Table 9. Selected Benzodiazepine Items <strong>Report</strong>ed by Forensic Laboratories in 22 <strong>CEWG</strong> Areas, by Number and Percentage of Total Items Identified 1 : 1H 2008 2 <strong>CEWG</strong> Alprazolam Clonazepam Diazepam Total Area # (%) # (%) # (%) Items Albuquerque 1 * 1 * 3 * 733 Atlanta 249 3.7 33 * 29 * 6,779 Baltimore City 144 * 84 * 26 * 28,288 Boston 152 1.0 259 1.7 45 * 14,921 Chicago 92 * 22 * 27 * 40,400 Cincinnati 57 * 29 * 36 * 7,011 Denver 25 * 11 * 6 * 4,252 Detroit 67 1.9 7 * 15 * 3,527 Honolulu 1 * 2 * 7 * 1,143 Los Angeles 112 * 58 * 66 * 29,567 Maryland 179 * 96 * 39 * 33,219 Miami 293 1.8 15 * 10 * 16,015 Minneapolis/ 8 * 7 * 5 * 2,502 St. Paul New York City 517 1.9 138 * 41 * 27,064 Philadelphia 464 2.9 75 * 49 * 16,057 Phoenix 16 * 9 * 10 * 3,372 San Diego 81 * 34 * 49 * 10,234 San Francisco 40 * 53 * 70 * 11,925 Seattle 8 * 8 * 8 * 1,573 St. Louis 162 1.7 27 * 52 * 9,605 Texas 2,025 4.2 351 * 195 * 47,868 Washington, DC 5 * 4 * 0 * 2,3<strong>09</strong> 1 Only percentages of 1.0 or higher are reported in this table; percentages of less than 1.0 are indicated with the symbol *. 2 Data are for the first half of 2008: <strong>January</strong>–June 2008. SOURCE: All data were received from NFLIS, DEA, <strong>January</strong> 4, 20<strong>09</strong> (see appendix table 2); data are subject to change and may differ according to the date on which they were queried Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, <strong>January</strong> 20<strong>09</strong> 87
EpidEmiologic TrEnds in drug AbusE: HigHligHTs And ExEcuTivE summAry forensic laboratories in 22 <strong>CEWG</strong> areas in the first half of 2008 reporting period. Table 9 shows the numbers and percentages of drug items containing alprazolam, clonazepam, and diazepam in each of the reporting <strong>CEWG</strong> areas. Alprazolam. In the 22 <strong>CEWG</strong> areas for which NFLIS data were reported for the first half of 2008, the highest percentages of alprazolam drug items identified were in Texas (4.2 percent), followed by Atlanta (3.7 percent), and Philadelphia (2.9 percent). Alprazolam drug items were reported at 1.0–1.9 percent in Boston, St. Louis, Miami, New York City, and Detroit, and at less than 1 percent in the remaining 14 reporting <strong>CEWG</strong> areas (table 9). In section II, table 1, which shows the rankings of the most frequently reported drugs in NFLIS for the first half of 2008 data, alprazolam ranked fourth in frequency among the top 10 drug items identified in four <strong>CEWG</strong> areas: Miami/ Dade County, Atlanta, New York City, and Texas. It ranked fifth in Philadelphia. Clonazepam. Drug items containing clonazepam accounted for 1.7 percent of all drug items in Boston. Its presence was minimal in the 21 other <strong>CEWG</strong> areas (table 9). In Boston, clonazepam figured as the 6th most frequently identified drug in forensic laboratories in the first half of 2008; 8th in Baltimore City; 9th in Maryland, Philadelphia, and Texas; and 10th in New York City, Cincinnati, and Seattle (section II, table 1). Diazepam. Drug items containing diazepam accounted for less than 1 percent of all drug items in each of the 22 <strong>CEWG</strong> areas (table 9). However, diazepam ranked 7th in Honolulu, 9th in Cincinnati and San Diego, and 10th in San Francisco among drug items identified in NFLIS forensic laboratories in the first half of 2008 (section II, table 1). 88 Proceedings of the Community Epidemiology Work Group, <strong>January</strong> 20<strong>09</strong>
Page 1 and 2:
EpidEmiologic TrEnds in drug AbusE
Page 3 and 4:
EpidEmiologic TrEnds in drug AbusE:
Page 5 and 6:
Page 7 and 8:
Foreword Foreword This Executive Su
Page 9 and 10:
Page 11 and 12:
Page 13 and 14:
Page 15 and 16:
Page 17 and 18:
Page 19 and 20:
Page 21 and 22:
Page 23 and 24:
Page 25 and 26:
Page 27 and 28:
Page 29 and 30:
Page 31 and 32:
Page 33 and 34:
Page 35 and 36:
58.9 17.5 1.8 1.5 EpidEmiologic TrE
Page 37 and 38:
Page 39 and 40:
Page 41 and 42:
Page 43 and 44: EpidEmiologic TrEnds in drug AbusE:
Page 93: EpidEmiologic TrEnds in drug AbusE:
Page 115 and 116: Participant List Participant List <
Page 117 and 118: Participant List Daniel P. Dooley S
Page 119 and 120: Participant List John A. Newmeyer,
Page 121: NIH Publication No. 09</str
show all

CEWG January 09 Full Report - National Institute on Drug Abuse

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?