Editor’s note: This table is published as supplementary material to the article “Opioids in the USA: Disparities in addiction and incarceration”, which appears on page 6 of our October 2019 issue.
TABLE 1 Summary statistics on demographics, opioid use, and opioid treatment by race categories, 2014. Source: CDC WONDER.
| US population (N=323,232,835) | Opioid related deaths (N=27,884) | Opioid related death rate per 100,000 | Opioid related addiction treatment center admissions (N=54,243) | Arrests among opioid related addiction treatment center patients (N=3,871) | |
| White | 71.7% | 90.2% | 10.0 | 88.0% | 90.1% |
| Black or African American | 12.2% | 8.3% | 5.2 | 4.2% | 2.9% |
| American Indian or Alaska Native* | 0.8% | 1.2% | 7.4 | 1.6% | 2.0% |
| Asian | 4.9% | 0.7% | 1.1 | 0.3% | 0.2% |
| Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander** | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.2% | ||
| Other single race | 4.6% | 4.4% | 3.2% | ||
| Two or more races*** ✝ | 5.6% | 1.2% | 1.4% |
*Created from the TEDSA data by combining American Indian and Alaska Native groups.
**Created from the TEDSA data by combining Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander and Asian or Pacific Islander groups.
***Combines census estimates for all categories including more than one race, such as two or more races and three or more races.
✝All missing data was removed from all data sets.
