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This 8 page paper looks at the prevalence of intravenous drug use in New York. The paper examines existing statistics, the demographic profile of know users as well as social and economic influences. The bibliography cites 18 sources.
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drug use statistics are difficult to assertion due to the convert nature of addiction and use. Annual incidence rates are not available and any estimates on prevalence are likely to
be inaccurate due to the movement of the drug users and way that any estimates or observations are likely to be underestimates due to the hidden nature of intravenous drug
use. In an area such as New York the overall size and distribution of the population means there are many cases or users likely to go unreported. However, there
are a number of potential statistics which can be seen as indicative of the problem. Statistics For the use of particular types or drugs are recorded when a user is
admitted to for drug rehabilitation or substance abuse treatment. In New York1. Not all drugs can be used intravenously, and as users are categories by their primary addiction by drug
type, not by the style of drug admission the relevant statistics ca be extrapolated, remembering that there is room for error as intravenous drug use may categorized as a secondary
addiction. In 2005 there were 65,704 admission of heroin use, making up 18.6% of all substance abuse admission2 (Drugrehab.org, 2005). 530 meth users were admitted, which made up 0.2% of
all the relevant admissions and cocaine users, (no smoked) had 12,876 admissions, making up 4.2% of the admissions (Drugrehab.org, 2005). It should also be noted that these categories do not
account for all intravenous drug uses, so the data is also limited. When looking at prevalence, with a state population of 19,254,630 (Department of Health, 2006), the heroin admission
rate is 0.27%, but this is not prevalence, as not all users will have been admitted, nether it is it incidence as some may be ongoing users while other may
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