TABLE.

Number and crude death rates for poisonings involving opioid analgesics, by year and demographic characteristics — New York state, 2003–2012

Characteristic	Year										Ratio
	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2012:2003
Number of deaths
All drug poisonings	750	522	891	952	1,581	1,679	1,566	1,415	1,853	1,869	2.5
Drug poisonings involving opioid analgesics	179	120	287	394	660	769	734	764	909	883	4.9
Opioid analgesics–related deaths per 100,000 population
Total	0.93	0.62	1.49	2.04	3.42	3.95	3.76	3.94	4.67	4.51	4.8
Age group (yrs)
<15	0.00	0.03	0.05	0.03	0.03	0.06	0.08	0.06	0.09	0.11	-
15–19	0.23	0.39	0.61	0.94	0.64	1.78	1.39	1.39	1.28	1.15	5.0
20–44	1.22	0.84	1.97	2.68	4.82	5.15	5.06	5.40	6.74	6.22	5.1
45–64	1.84	1.10	2.74	3.71	6.28	7.23	6.8	6.99	7.90	7.82	4.3
65–84	0.19	0.14	0.42	0.74	0.32	1.00	0.76	0.85	0.88	1.32	6.9
≥85	0.29	0.28	0.27	0	0.78	0.50	0.26	0.26	0.49	0.72	2.5
Sex
Females	0.70	0.48	0.88	1.35	2.26	2.57	2.69	2.58	3.39	3.18	4.5
Males	1.19	0.77	2.14	2.78	4.65	5.40	4.88	5.40	6.03	5.76	4.8
Race
Black	0.45	0.20	0.61	0.93	1.85	1.78	2.10	2.21	2.36	2.48	5.5
White	1.12	0.76	1.81	2.47	4.07	4.79	4.45	4.77	5.67	5.39	4.8
Other	0.28	0.28	0.48	0.53	0.92	0.96	1.14	0.79	1.43	1.77	6.3
Region
NYC	0.52	0.37	0.69	0.75	2.80	3.52	3.28	3.67	3.64	3.89	7.5
New York state, excluding NYC	1.23	0.81	2.08	2.99	3.88	4.27	4.13	4.14	5.43	4.98	4.0
Medicaid status
Medicaid	1.57	1.06	2.74	3.22	6.50	7.23	6.81	7.06	8.40	8.31	5.3
Non-Medicaid	0.73	0.47	1.03	1.61	2.32	2.78	2.61	2.66	3.06	2.82	3.9

Abbreviation: NYC = New York City