2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 4

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 4 619 49 9.1 6.7-12.2 570 90.9 87.8-93.3
GENDER
Male 280 26 9.6 6.3-14.3 254 90.4 85.7-93.7
Female 339 23 8.7 5.5-13.3 316 91.3 86.7-94.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 372 34 10.5 7.3-14.7 338 89.5 85.3-92.7
Non-Hispanic Black 152 13 9.5 5.1-17.0 139 90.5 83.0-94.9
Other 95 *** *** *** 93 98.8 95.4-99.7
AGE
18-44 216 23 12.0 7.7-18.1 193 88.0 81.9-92.3
45-64 231 19 8.9 5.5-14.2 212 91.1 85.8-94.5
65+ 162 *** *** *** 155 95.8 91.0-98.1
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 204 13 7.7 4.4-13.1 191 92.3 86.9-95.6
Some Post-H.S. 140 13 10.1 5.5-17.8 127 89.9 82.2-94.5
College Graduate 274 23 9.9 6.3-15.2 251 90.1 84.8-93.7
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 241 21 11.6 7.3-18.0 220 88.4 82.0-92.7
$50,000+ 266 25 9.8 6.4-14.6 241 90.2 85.4-93.6
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 112 *** *** *** 109 97.3 90.2-99.3

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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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