2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 2

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 2 523 54 12.6 9.4-16.7 469 87.4 83.3-90.6
GENDER
Male 230 26 14.3 9.3-21.3 204 85.7 78.7-90.7
Female 293 28 11.1 7.4-16.4 265 88.9 83.6-92.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 383 43 14.1 10.1-19.4 340 85.9 80.6-89.9
Non-Hispanic Black 92 *** *** *** 86 92.3 82.8-96.7
Other 48 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 149 22 19.8 13.0-29.0 127 80.2 71.0-87.0
45-64 198 21 9.4 5.9-14.6 177 90.6 85.4-94.1
65+ 167 *** *** *** 157 94.0 88.7-96.9
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 188 22 13.8 8.4-21.7 166 86.2 78.3-91.6
Some Post-H.S. 167 22 13.9 8.9-21.0 145 86.1 79.0-91.1
College Graduate 166 *** *** *** 156 91.3 84.1-95.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 218 20 9.9 6.1-15.8 198 90.1 84.2-93.9
$50,000+ 202 22 12.8 8.1-19.8 180 87.2 80.2-91.9
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 103 *** *** *** *** *** ***

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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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