2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 5

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 5 633 66 10.3 7.9-13.3 567 89.7 86.7-92.1
GENDER
Male 280 31 11.3 7.7-16.3 249 88.7 83.7-92.3
Female 353 35 9.5 6.6-13.5 318 90.5 86.5-93.4
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 383 45 11.6 8.5-15.6 338 88.4 84.4-91.5
Non-Hispanic Black 130 12 8.5 4.4-15.6 118 91.5 84.4-95.6
Other 120 *** *** *** 111 92.0 83.3-96.3
AGE
18-44 199 29 13.0 8.8-18.8 170 87.0 81.2-91.2
45-64 229 22 8.8 5.6-13.7 207 91.2 86.3-94.4
65+ 199 15 8.1 4.7-13.7 184 91.9 86.3-95.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 245 26 10.4 6.9-15.5 219 89.6 84.5-93.1
Some Post-H.S. 198 19 9.9 6.0-15.7 179 90.1 84.3-94.0
College Graduate 189 21 10.9 6.9-16.8 168 89.1 83.2-93.1
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 334 41 13.1 9.4-17.9 293 86.9 82.1-90.6
$50,000+ 194 16 7.1 4.0-12.1 178 92.9 87.9-96.0
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 105 *** *** *** 96 91.5 83.6-95.8

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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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