Cocaine/Crack

• Cocaine was the leading illicit drug responsible for 1996 TEDS admissions, accounting for 16 percent of admissions. Some 73 percent of cocaine admissions were for smoked cocaine (crack) (Table 3.2).

• Smoking is followed by inhalation (snorting) as the most common route of administration. About two-thirds of admissions for non-smoked cocaine are for inhalation (Table 3.5).

• Smoked cocaine admissions, when compared to total TEDS admissions, were disproportionately black and female--61 percent of these admissions were black, and 42 percent were female, compared to 25 percent and 30 percent of all admissions (Table 3.1).

Figure 11. Smoked Cocaine (Crack)
Admissions by Sex, Age, and Race/Ethnicity: 1996

• Smoked cocaine is the primary substance most frequently reported by black admissions (29 percent of black treatment admissions) (Table 3.2).

• Daily use was reported by 41 percent of smoked cocaine admissions (Table 3.5).

• Admissions for non-smoked cocaine are more likely to be white and male than are smoked cocaine admissions. Some 48 percent of these admissions are white, and two-thirds are male (Table 3.1).

Figure 12. Non-Smoked Cocaine
Admissions by Sex, Age, and Race/Ethnicity: 1996