TABLE 1.

Characteristics of cocaine-related emergency department visits, Chicago MSA, 2004–2010

	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Overall cocaine-related ED visits
ED visits	31,113	30,224	34,857	31,188	30,667	23,373	23,020
Rate per 100,000 population	336	326	375	334	327	248	243
Percent of ED visits that are cocaine-related out of all illicit drug-related ED visits, %	57.98	60.25	57.48	61.28	54.82	48.08	42.02
ED visits by sex, %
Male, %	66.20	65.12	65.54	65.85	66.03	66.80	65.89
Female, %	33.80	34.88	34.46	34.15	33.97	33.20	34.11
ED visits by race/ethnicity, %a
Non-Hispanic white, %	19.58	20.17	19.98	18.61	18.10	22.39	20.96
African-American, %	69.65	69.79	69.18	68.26	71.50	66.58	70.08
Hispanic, %	10.77	10.04	10.83	13.13	10.40	11.04	8.96
ED visits by age, %
<21 years, %	2.85	3.22	3.27	3.04	2.85	2.74	2.66
21–34 years, %	27.31	24.79	24.22	21.51	19.58	19.77	19.81
35–44 years, %	39.73	38.75	37.23	36.62	34.56	33.11	30.75
45–54 years, %	25.81	28.03	29.18	31.56	34.18	35.29	36.13
≥55 years, %	4.29	5.20	6.09	7.28	8.83	9.09	10.64

Data Source: Drug Abuse Warning Network, United States Department of Health and Human Services

^aOther race/ethnicity cannot be directly estimated. DAWN reports did not report other race/ethnicity and we do not include other races here