Table 3.
Current (30 day) Prevalence of Drug Use by Ethnonational Group and Immigration Status
| Drug (Percentage who have used drugs in last 30 days) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National subgroup %(N) |
Beer | Wine | Liquor | Marijuana | Ecstasy | Methamphetamine | Cocaine | LSD | Mushrooms | GHB | Ketamine | Nitrous | Prescription Opiates |
| Chinese/Taiwanese 28.2% (58) |
86.2 | 53.4* | 79.3 | 53.4 | 20.7 | 3.4% | 12.1 | 5.2 | 6.9* | 1.7% | 3.4 | 1.7 | 13.8 |
| Japanese/Korean 8.3% (17) |
76.5 | 52.9* | 82.4 | 64.7 | 23.5 | 0.0% | 17.6 | 0.0 | 17.6* | 0.0% | 0.0 | 5.9 | 11.8 |
| Southeast Asian 24.3% (50) |
74.0 | 30.0* | 86.0 | 62.0 | 42.0 | 14.0% | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0* | 0.0% | 2.0 | 0.0 | 12.0 |
| South Asian 7.8% (16) |
93.8 | 75.0* | 100.0 | 75.0 | 18.8 | 0.0% | 6.3 | 6.3 | 0.0* | 0.0% | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Filipino 18.4% (38) |
76.3 | 76.3* | 89.5 | 73.7 | 23.7 | 2.6% | 15.8 | 5.3 | 15.8* | 2.6% | 0.0 | 5.3 | 7.9 |
| Mixed/Mixed Asian 13.1% (26) |
77.8 | 59.3* | 81.5 | 70.4 | 25.9 | 3.7% | 18.5 | 3.7 | 11.1* | 7.4% | 3.7 | 7.4 | 22.2 |
|
Immigration Status (N) | |||||||||||||
| American Born 68.4% (141) |
79.4 | 54.6 | 85.1 | 63.1 | 29.8 | 2.8%* | 13.5 | 3.5 | 9.2 | 2.1% | 1.4 | 2.8 | 14.9 |
| Foreign Born 31.6% (65) |
81.5 | 53.8 | 84.6 | 66.2 | 21.5 | 10.8%* | 7.7 | 3.1 | 4.6 | 1.5% | 3.1 | 3.1 | 6.2 |
| Total % (N) | 80.1 (165) |
54.4 (112) |
85.0 (175) |
64.1 (132) |
27.2 (56) |
5.3% (11) |
11.7 (24) |
3.4 (7) |
7.8 (16) |
1.9% (4) |
1.9 (4) |
2.9 (6) |
12.1 (25) |
*
p<.05