Actually, not so much John....
Like I already pointed out, it greatly DEPENDS on how you frame your particular question:
WHAT drugs are considered, and what period the statistics are covering, and the age ranges in question, etc.
But, across all the statistics, Socio- Economic factors have a substantially larger impact then anything as nebulous as 'race'. (Which would have no discernible pattern impact in other societies anyway. ;-)
As far as particular drugs may go... WHITES use marijuana to a very much greater extent then blacks (more then two to one if memory serves), blacks are reported to have a higher incidence of crack cocaine use, while whites are reported to have a higher incidence of powder cocaine use, higher rates of illegal prescription drug abuse ('Hillbilly Heroin' anyone?) and *much* higher rates for methamphetamine abuse (big in many poor rural areas and among 'skinheads' don't 'cha know).
But when socio-economic effects are factored out (wealth...) and ALL 'illicit drug use' is averaged together, (as you seem to be wanting to do), then the overall measurable differences between 'whites' and 'blacks' fall away into insignificance, well into the margin of measurement error.
Asians and Hispanics in America though do appear to both have significantly lower overall rates of 'illicit drug use' then either blacks or whites....
Racial and Ethnic Groups: Reports and Data
Office of Applied Studies, SAMHSA
US Department of Health and Human Services
oas.samhsa.gov
...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.
hrw.org
Table of Contents of the Prevalence of Substance Use Among Racial and Ethnic Subgroups in the United States
samhsa.gov
"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
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]
etc.
Re: "Nothing you have posted has proven otherwise"
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: "Even a primary source that you cited this morning confirmed my point and discredited yours."
You point to *one* of the MANY surveys I supplied, while I point to five or six others. (And neither the one you cherry-pick nor any of the others show anything as statistically strong as the Socio-Economic effect anyway. LOL!)
So much for "Nothing you have posted"! |
