2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 1

Injection Drug Use

Do you know anyone who injects drugs that have not been prescribed for them by a doctor?

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 3,561 346 10.5 9.3-12.0 3,215 89.5 88.0-90.7
Medicaid Region 1 638 84 11.8 9.0-15.5 554 88.2 84.5-91.0
GENDER
Male 294 41 12.3 8.0-18.4 253 87.7 81.6-92.0
Female 344 43 11.5 7.9-16.3 301 88.5 83.7-92.1
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 550 72 12.7 9.4-16.8 478 87.3 83.2-90.6
Non-Hispanic Black 27 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 61 *** *** *** 51 91.4 82.4-96.0
AGE
18-44 154 28 15.6 10.0-23.5 126 84.4 76.5-90.0
45-64 229 35 11.6 7.7-17.1 194 88.4 82.9-92.3
65+ 245 21 8.0 4.0-15.3 224 92.0 84.7-96.0
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 221 33 12.5 7.9-19.4 188 87.5 80.6-92.1
Some Post-H.S. 196 19 8.2 4.6-14.5 177 91.8 85.5-95.4
College Graduate 221 32 15.9 10.5-23.3 189 84.1 76.7-89.5
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 285 42 11.2 7.4-16.5 243 88.8 83.5-92.6
$50,000+ 224 33 15.0 9.8-22.2 191 85.0 77.8-90.2
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 129 *** *** *** 120 91.7 81.4-96.5

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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