Cocaine Treatment Admissions

• Cocaine treatment admission rates were generally highest in the middle Atlantic and some southern States
• Trends indicated stable or declining treatment admission rates for primary cocaine abuse in most States

Admissions to publicly funded substance abuse treatment facilities for cocaine abuse declined by 23 percent between 1993 and 1999, from 136 to 104 per 100,000 persons aged 12 or older. Cocaine was responsible for 14 percent of the 1.6 million admissions in 1999 to these facilities. Cocaine and opiates (at 15 percent) were the leading illicit drugs responsible for treatment admissions.
Cocaine treatment admission rates were generally highest in the middle Atlantic and some southern States. Trends indicated stable or declining admission rates for primary cocaine abuse in most States.
For this report, cocaine treatment admission rates per 100,000 persons aged 12 or older were calculated for each State for 1993 to 1999 using the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS). Cocaine treatment admissions include both smoked cocaine (crack) and cocaine used by other routes of administration. Crack cocaine treatment admissions accounted for about three quarters of all cocaine treatment
admissions annually from 1993 to 1999.

Cocaine Treatment Admission Rates: 1999
By 1999, the treatment
admission rate for primary cocaine abuse in the United States as a whole had
decreased to 104 per 100,000 persons aged 12 or older. Two States had rates of
207 per 100,000 or more. Sixty-seven percent of reporting States had rates of
less than 114 per 100,000.
Admissions per 100,000 Aged 12 or Older