Buddy wrote:
"...insofar as hospital admissions, over-all deaths, etc., pharmaceutical abuse leads the way by far."
Okay, let's look at that, by race, Buddy.
The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is a public health surveillance system that monitors drug-related hospital emergency department (ED) visits and drug-related deaths to track the impact of drug use, misuse, and abuse in the U.S.
dawninfo.samhsa.gov
excerpt:
2008 emergency room visits for all drug misuse and abuse
Whites: 2,264,543
Blacks: 670,671
2008 Emergency room visits for illicit drug use
Whites: 1,040,572
Blacks: 523,486
2008 Emergency room visits for the nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals
Whites: 1,389,925
Blacks: 216,595
The 2009 U.S. population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau:
factfinder.census.gov
excerpt:
Number of Whites: 244,298,393
Number of Blacks: 39,641,060
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Conclusions:
In 2008, Blacks went to the emergency room for all cases of drug misuse and abuse at ~1.83 times the rate of Whites, on a proportional basis.
In 2008, Blacks went to the emergency room for illicit drug use at ~3.10 times the rate of Whites, on a proportional basis.
In 2008, Whites went to the emergency room for the nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals at ~1.04 times the rate of Blacks, relative to the respective populations of both races, which is statistically even.
In summary, I have now shown that (a) Blacks are arrested for illicit drug abuse far more often than Whites, and (b) Blacks go to the emergency room for illicit drug abuse far more often than Whites. |
