Re: [Arrest data gives us one source for information but the most accurate picture of drug abuse it ain't....] "Can you tell us what a more accurate one might be?"
Sure!
No, problem Bill:
Office of Applied Studies - Drug Abuse (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)
oas.samhsa.gov
National Survey on Drug Use and Health
oas.samhsa.gov
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Illegal Drug Use (US)
cdc.gov
Data source (Health, United States, 2009, table 63):
cdc.gov
National Institute of Drug Abuse - trends and statistics
drugabuse.gov
Results from the 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health:
National Findings
oas.samhsa.gov
National Institute of Drug Abuse (Division of Epidemiology, Services & Prevention Research) - Drug Use Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities
archives.drugabuse.gov
Trends & Statistics (NIDA's Featured Publications)
drugabuse.gov
NIDA InfoFacts: Nationwide Trends
nida.nih.gov
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (US Department of Health and Human Services, new Web site)
health.org
2008 - illicit drug use by race ---
"Current illicit drug use among persons aged 12 or older varied by race/ethnicity in 2008, with the lowest rate among Asians (3.6 percent) (Figure 2.9). Rates were 14.7 percent for persons reporting two or more races, 10.1 percent for blacks, 9.5 percent for American Indians or Alaska Natives, 8.2 percent for whites, 7.3 percent of Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders, and 6.2 percent for Hispanics."
Source:
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2009). Results from the 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: National Findings (Office of Applied Studies, NSDUH Series H-36, HHS Publication No. SMA 09-4434). Rockville, MD, p. 25.
oas.samhsa.gov
Racial disparities in drug crime sentencing 2003, 2004 -
"The racial disparities in the rates of drug arrests culminate in dramatic racial disproportions among incarcerated drug offenders. At least two-thirds of drug arrests result in a criminal conviction.18 Many convicted drug offenders are sentenced to incarceration: an estimated 67 percent of convicted felony drug defendants are sentenced to jail or prison.19 The likelihood of incarceration increases if the defendant has a prior conviction.20 Since blacks are more likely to be arrested than whites on drug charges, they are more likely to acquire the convictions that ultimately lead to higher rates of incarceration. Although the data in this backgrounder indicate that blacks represent about one-third of drug arrests, they constitute 46 percent of persons convicted of drug felonies in state courts.21 Among black defendants convicted of drug offenses, 71 percent received sentences to incarceration in contrast to 63 percent of convicted white drug offenders.22 Human Rights Watch’s analysis of prison admission data for 2003 revealed that relative to population, blacks are 10.1 times more likely than whites to be sent to prison for drug offenses.23"
Source:
Fellner, Jamie, "Decades of Disparity: Drug Arrests and Race in the United States," Human Rights Watch (New York, NY: March 2009), p. 16.
hrw.org
1999 - racial disparities:
"Our research shows that blacks comprise 62.7 percent and whites 36.7 percent of all drug offenders admitted to state prison, even though federal surveys and other data detailed in this report show clearly that this racial disparity bears scant relation to racial differences in drug offending. There are, for example, five times more white drug users than black. Relative to population, black men are admitted to state prison on drug charges at a rate that is 13.4 times greater than that of white men. In large part because of the extraordinary racial disparities in incarceration for drug offenses, blacks are incarcerated for all offenses at 8.2 times the rate of whites. One in every 20 black men over the age of 18 in the United States is in state or federal prison, compared to one in 180 white men."
Source:
Human Rights Watch, "Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs" (Washington, DC: Human Rights Watch, 2000).
hrw.org
Drug War Facts.org
drugwarfacts.org
Racial and Ethnic Groups: Reports and Data
Office of Applied Studies, SAMHSA
US Department of Health and Human Services
oas.samhsa.gov
GOOGLE ANSWERS - Alcohol/drug use statistics by race in America
answers.google.com
...your question’s answer was easy to get....
This look likes a very close site for the statistics you need:
Topics on SAMHSA’s Office of Applied Statistics
samhsa.gov
SAMHSA has statistics on drug abuse from a wide range of samples, such as race, sex, and age. For example, let me quote a report on Marijuana use among youth.
“Among marijuana treatment admissions for youth, 59 percent were white, 23 percent were Black, 12 percent were Hispanic, 2 percent were Asian/Pacific Islanders, and 2 percent were American Indian and Alaska Natives.”
This came from the DASIS Report: Youth Marijuana Admissions by race and Ethnicity
samhsa.gov
Table of Contents of the Prevalence of Substance Use Among Racial and Ethnic Subgroups in the United States
samhsa.gov
State Estimates of Substance Abuse from the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
samhsa.gov
The drawback is that no report says that the surveyed people were non-alcoholics, but this so far is the best I can get.
Search string on Google:
drug abuse race statistics
Race/Ethnicity and Gender Differences in Drug Use and Abuse Among ...
(National Institute of Health - public access)
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
ARE Blacks A Criminal Race? Surprising Statistics
Van Jones
Posted: October 5, 2005 04:43 PM
huffingtonpost.com
...Those who believe that African American or Latino youth are more "criminal" than any other ethnic groups are simply wrong. The real facts tell us much more than stereotypes, or musings—both of which obscure the well-documented disparate treatment accorded African Americans compared to whites within the justice system. These comments on racially disparate crime also overlook the area of "corporate crime."
For over a decade, the Justice Department has been working to reduce the racial disparity seen in juvenile arrests and juvenile imprisonment, a fact that underscores the existence of racially disparate arrests and sentences. African American youth arrest rates for drug violations, assaults and weapon offenses are higher than arrest rates for white youth—even though both report similar rates of delinquency....
LARGEST DISPARITIES FOUND IN DRUG ARRESTS, IMPRISONMENT. Some of the greatest disparities in the juvenile justice system's response to youth of color involve the number of youth arrested, and prosecuted for drug offenses. While African American youth comprise 17% of the youth population [4], African American youth represent 27% of all drug violation arrests, and comprise 48% of the youth detained for a drug offense.
"Contrary to popular assumption, at all three grade levels African American youth have substantially lower rates of use of most licit and illicit drugs than do Whites."
— Monitoring the Future Survey, 2004.
Table 1: African Americans Make Up Nearly Half the Youth Detained for Drug Offenses, But Use Drugs at the Same Rate as Whites
Source: Crime in the United States, 2001. (2002) Washington, DC: U.S. Justice Department, Federal Bureau of Investigations. Puzzanchera, C., Finnegan, T. and Kang, W. (2005). "Easy Access to Juvenile Populations" Online. Available: ojjdp.ncjrs.org; Sickmund, Melissa, Sladky, T.J., and Kang, Wei. (2004) "Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook." Online. Available: ojjdp.ncjrs.org
African American Youth Are Treated Differently By the Juvenile Justice System
* Drugs. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, among youths aged 12 to 17, the rate of current illicit drug use was 11.1 % among whites, and 9.3% among African Americans. [5] In a previous year, the same survey found that white youth aged 12 to17 are more than a third more likely to have sold drugs than African American youth. [6] The Monitoring the Future Survey of high school seniors shows that white students annually use cocaine at 4.6 times the rate of African Americans students, use crack cocaine at 1.5 times the rate of African Americans students, and use heroin at the same rate of African Americans students, and that white youth report annual use of marijuana at a rate 46% higher than African American youth. [7] However African American youth are arrested for drug offenses at about twice the rate (African American 314 per 100,000, white 175 per 100,000) times that of whites, [8] and African American youth represent nearly half (48%) of all the youth incarcerated for a drug offense in the juvenile justice system. [9]
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