2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 3

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 3 479 44 10.4 7.5-14.3 435 89.6 85.7-92.5
GENDER
Male 219 20 9.5 5.5-15.8 199 90.5 84.2-94.5
Female 260 24 11.3 7.4-16.9 236 88.7 83.1-92.6
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 311 35 13.9 9.7-19.5 276 86.1 80.5-90.3
Non-Hispanic Black 90 *** *** *** 83 94.1 87.6-97.3
Other 78 *** *** *** 76 98.8 94.6-99.7
AGE
18-44 164 17 11.8 7.2-18.8 147 88.2 81.2-92.8
45-64 163 *** *** *** 153 94.4 89.3-97.2
65+ 145 16 16.1 8.8-27.7 129 83.9 72.3-91.2
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 167 13 10.2 5.6-17.9 154 89.8 82.1-94.4
Some Post-H.S. 155 22 13.0 8.3-19.7 133 87.0 80.3-91.7
College Graduate 155 *** *** *** 146 93.3 87.0-96.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 195 22 12.8 8.1-19.5 173 87.2 80.5-91.9
$50,000+ 182 13 7.7 4.3-13.3 169 92.3 86.7-95.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 102 *** *** *** 93 88.7 75.4-95.2

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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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