2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Local Health Director Region 8 Demographics

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
Region 8 395 36 11.4 7.2-17.6 359 88.6 82.4-92.8
GENDER
Male 182 14 12.4 5.8-24.7 168 87.6 75.3-94.2
Female 213 22 10.4 6.5-16.3 191 89.6 83.7-93.5
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 253 27 10.5 7.0-15.5 226 89.5 84.5-93.0
Non-Hispanic Black 59 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Other 83 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AGE
18-44 114 *** *** *** *** *** ***
45-64 140 12 8.7 4.7-15.6 128 91.3 84.4-95.3
65+ 137 *** *** *** 131 95.9 90.0-98.4
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 155 *** *** *** 147 95.0 89.1-97.8
Some Post-H.S. 125 *** *** *** *** *** ***
College Graduate 114 17 16.7 10.0-26.7 97 83.3 73.3-90.0
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 212 20 9.7 5.9-15.4 192 90.3 84.6-94.1
$50,000+ 115 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Don't know/Not Sure 68 *** *** *** 65 96.6 89.6-98.9

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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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