TABLE 4.

Characteristics of the U.S. clients entering treatment as reported on TEDS: 2007^*

	Heroin	Illicit methadone	Other opiates*
n	246,871	5,094	85,422
Percentage male	69	53	54
Percentage White	52	85	89
Percentage Black	22	6	4
Percentage Hispanic	23	7	4
Percentage entering treatment at age 35+	55	40	36
Percentage began use at age 18–20	24	17	20
Percentage use daily	71	67	62
Percentage reporting current IV use	64	15	14
Percentage first admissions	23	39	43
Percentage referred by criminal justice	12	15	16
Percentage self-referred	64	50	51
Percentage homeless	19	6	6
Percentage employed	16	27	29
Percentage < GED or year 12 completed	63	67	75
Percentage with psychiatric problem	37	33	25
Percentage with no health insurance†	55	60	55

^*Includes codeine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, meperidine, morphine, opium, oxycodone, pentazocine, propoxyphene, tramadol, and other drugs with morphine-like effects. Nonprescription methadone excluded.

^†Health insurance included private, medicaid, medicare/tricare.

TEDS data run 16 April, 2009.