Table 3.

Patient demographics and characteristics across years

	Fiscal year
	2002 (N= 1204)	2003 (N= 2227)	2004 (N= 2121)	2005 (N= 2004)	2006 (N= 2099)
New admissions (%)	90	85	81	79	77
Gender (% male)	80	78	77	78	75
Mean age (S.D.)	33.0 (10.7)	32.8 (9.9)	33.1 (10.3)	33.6 (10.5)	34.0 (10.7)
Race (%)
Caucasian	56	55	57	57	56
African-American	41	40	39	39	39
Other minority	3	4	4	4	5
Employed (% employed)	57	55	55	54	52
Reported mental illness	12	13	14	20	23
History of substance abuse treatment	67	70	65	67	68
Primary substance of abuse (%)
Alcohol	35	34	37	38	33
Cocaine	22	23	19	20	22
Marijuana	34	33	31	30	32
Legal involvement (%)
None current	18	16	25	23	28
Awaiting charges/sentencing	10	27	9	11	11
Supervised probation	44	38	53	51	48

Note: Data represent seven of the eight programs continuously involved in the performance contracting (see text).