Table 1. Demographics and recent drug use of PWIDs in ZIP Codes with 10 or more PWIDs and less than 10 PWIDs who entered Beth Israel/Mount Sinai drug treatment from 2011–2015 (N = 910).
Zips of 10 or more PWID | Zips of <10 PWID | All Zips | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Average N per Zip Code | 17 | 2 | 4 | |||
Average Age (SD) | 41 (9.9) | 38 (10.7) | 40 (10.4) | |||
N | % | N | % | N | % | |
Total | 482 | 100.0 | 428 | 100.0 | 910 | 100 |
Gender | ||||||
Male | 402 | 83.4 | 335 | 78.3 | 737 | 81.0 |
Female | 80 | 16.6 | 93 | 21.7 | 173 | 19.0 |
Race/ethnicity* | ||||||
White | 116 | 24.1 | 193 | 45.1 | 309 | 34.0 |
African-American | 75 | 15.6 | 60 | 14.0 | 135 | 14.8 |
Latinx | 281 | 58.3 | 145 | 33.9 | 426 | 46.8 |
Other | 10 | 2.0 | 30 | 7.0 | 40 | 4.4 |
Age groups | ||||||
18–22 | 15 | 3.1 | 22 | 5.1 | 37 | 4.1 |
23–27 | 30 | 6.2 | 60 | 14.0 | 90 | 9.9 |
28–32 | 54 | 11.2 | 72 | 16.8 | 126 | 13.8 |
33–37 | 73 | 15.1 | 61 | 14.3 | 134 | 14.7 |
38–42 | 76 | 15.8 | 61 | 14.3 | 137 | 15.1 |
43–47 | 95 | 19.7 | 59 | 13.8 | 154 | 16.9 |
48–52 | 74 | 15.4 | 50 | 11.7 | 124 | 13.6 |
53–57 | 47 | 9.8 | 29 | 6.8 | 76 | 8.4 |
58–62 | 13 | 2.7 | 10 | 2.3 | 23 | 2.5 |
63–67 | 4 | 0.8 | 1 | 0.2 | 5 | 0.5 |
68–72 | 1 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.5 | 3 | 0.3 |
73–77 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.1 |
Injected heroin | 456 | 94.8 | 414 | 96.7 | 870 | 95.7 |
Injected cocaine | 188 | 39.1 | 171 | 40.1 | 359 | 39.6 |
Injected speedball | 174 | 36.1 | 163 | 38.2 | 337 | 37.1 |
Smoked cocaine | 182 | 37.8 | 187 | 43.7 | 369 | 40.6 |
Daily injection | 346 | 71.8 | 313 | 73.1 | 659 | 72.4 |
HIV+* | 41 | 9.8 | 16 | 4.2 | 57 | 7.2 |
HCV+* | 277 | 66.4 | 216 | 57.0 | 493 | 61.9 |
ART among HIV+ | 26/41 | 63.4 | 10/16 | 62.5 | 36/57 | 63.2 |
HIV- with receptive sharing | 68 | 14.2 | 71 | 16.9 | 139 | 15.5 |
HIV+ with distributive sharing | 4 | 0.8 | 1 | 0.2 | 5 | 0.6 |
HCV- with receptive sharing | 20 | 4.2 | 28 | 6.7 | 48 | 5.3 |
HCV+ with distributive sharing | 42 | 8.9 | 34 | 8.0 | 76 | 8.5 |
* statistically significant differences, p < 0.05 by Fisher’s exact test