Table 2.

Mortality Rates (Overall and by Gender) by Type of Primary Drug

	Primary Drug N (%)			Total N (%)
	Heroin n=629	Cocaine n=694	Meth n=470	N=1793
No. of deaths within the first
10 years	4 (0.6)	7 (1.0)	1 (0.2)	12 (0.7)
20 years*	30 (4.8)	28 (4.0)	6 (1.3)	64 (3.6)
30 years**	101 (16.1)	45 (6.5)	7 (1.5)	153 (8.5)
By October, 2006**	296 (47.1)	54 (7.8)	11 (2.3)	361 (20.1)
Male**	N=562 285 (50.7)	N=490 51 (10.4)	N=254 4 (1.6)	N=1306 340 (26.0)
Female**	N=67 11 (16.4)	N=204 3 (1.5)	N=216 7 (3.2)	N=487 21 (4.3)

^*p < 0.05,

^**p < 0.001; Chi-square tests were used.