2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 6

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 6 671 49 9.8 6.4-14.6 622 90.2 85.4-93.6
GENDER
Male 297 26 13.4 7.6-22.5 271 86.6 77.5-92.4
Female 374 23 6.5 3.7-11.2 351 93.5 88.8-96.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 419 34 9.1 5.9-13.6 385 90.9 86.4-94.1
Non-Hispanic Black 188 12 10.1 3.9-23.7 176 89.9 76.3-96.1
Other 64 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 176 17 14.6 7.9-25.5 159 85.4 74.5-92.1
45-64 250 21 8.6 5.0-14.6 229 91.4 85.4-95.0
65+ 236 *** *** *** 226 96.5 91.6-98.6
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 264 17 7.1 3.8-12.7 247 92.9 87.3-96.2
Some Post-H.S. 207 19 13.8 7.1-24.9 188 86.2 75.1-92.9
College Graduate 199 13 7.4 3.9-13.4 186 92.6 86.6-96.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 330 24 7.2 4.1-12.2 306 92.8 87.8-95.9
$50,000+ 211 16 14.5 7.3-26.7 195 85.5 73.3-92.7
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 130 *** *** *** 121 92.3 82.8-96.8

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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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