Table 2.

Gender and racial profile of patients with cocaine (HCL/crack) as their primary drug of abuse: 1997–2006

	Cape Town					Gauteng					Eastern Cape
Period	Fem.	Black Afr.	Coloured	Asian	White	Fem.	Black Afr.	Coloured	Asian	White	Fem.	Black Afr.	Coloured	Asian	White
1997a	19.7	0.0	3.6	7.1	89.3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1997b	31.2	2.3	25.6	2.3	69.8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1998a	20.6	1.4	23.9	2.8	71.8	17.8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1998b	20.2	5.1	17.0	1.7	76.3	17.2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999a	22.0	1.3	32.9	2.5	63.3	24.0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999b	19.1	1.3	38.2	13.2	47.4	23.4	4.8	8.8	12.8	73.6	-	-	-	-	-
2000a	9.8	0.9	51.9	4.6	42.6	17.2	3.8	9.3	12.8	73.7	-	-	-	-	-
2000b	19.2	0.0	38.8	2.0	59.2	19.7	8.0	7.6	13.1	69.2	-	-	-	-	-
2001a	25.0	2.6	29.3	4.3	63.8	19.5	6.2	8.6	8.6	76.6	-	-	-	-	-
2001b	19.3	1.1	43.7	5.7	49.4	23.2	7.7	12.9	9.0	70.3	-	-	-	-	-
2002a	20.8	5.8	29.1	5.8	59.2	27.9	4.9	7.7	9.8	77.6	-	-	-	-	-
2002b	28.8	1.0	32.4	5.9	60.8	17.1	10.3	8.2	10.3	71.2	-	-	-	-	-
2003a	18.3	1.5	37.0	11.9	49.6	27.1	7.7	7.1	8.4	76.8	-	-	-	-	-
2003b	19.6	6.6	45.6	2.9	44.9	22.0	10.4	8.8	10.4	70.4	-	-	-	-	-
2004a	21.0	3.7	42.8	4.2	49.3	18.0	9.4	15.6	7.4	67.6	18.2	3.0	15.2	12.1	69.7
2004b	22.4	2.4	40.3	3.9	53.4	22.4	9.2	14.1	5.3	71.1	14.3	4.8	28.6	2.4	64.3
2005a	24.6	2.0	46.6	4.9	45.6	21.0	8.5	19.6	6.6	65.3	15.1	5.5	32.9	5.5	56.2
2005b	27.6	3.7	47.2	1.2	47.9	23.3	11.5	20.6	3.5	64.4	17.0	1.9	34.0	3.8	60.4
2006a	25.2	4.5	38.5	3.8	53.2	13.6	12.8	16.2	7.8	63.2	20.2	2.4	34.7	6.5	56.5
2006b	21.1	3.8	31.1	6.1	59.1	17.0	12.5	18.7	9.1	59.8	16.9	3.2	43.5	6.5	46.8