| Table 5.2a Admissions aged 12-17 by primary substance of abuse, according to gender and race/ethnicity: TEDS 2005 Column percent distribution |
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| [Based on administrative data reported to TEDS by all reporting States and jurisdictions. See Table 4.2a.] | ||||||||||||||||
| Gender and race/ethnicity | All admis-sions
aged 12-17 |
Primary substance at admission | ||||||||||||||
| Alcohol | Opiates | Cocaine | Mari-juana/ hashish | Stimulants | Tran-quil-izers | Seda-tives | Hallu-cino-gens | PCP | Inhal-ants | Other/ none speci-fied | ||||||
| Alcohol only | With secondary drug | Heroin | Other opiates | Smoked cocaine | Other route | Metham-phetamine/ amphet-amine | Other stimu-lants | |||||||||
| Total | 142,646 | 9,649 | 16,594 | 1,277 | 1,170 | 1,182 | 2,470 | 92,901 | 8,790 | 114 | 419 | 254 | 344 | 81 | 457 | 6,944 |
| Gender | ||||||||||||||||
| Male | 68.7 | 58.2 | 62.3 | 49.7 | 56.2 | 51.4 | 53.0 | 75.4 | 41.7 | 50.0 | 52.5 | 51.6 | 63.4 | 67.5 | 61.3 | 59.8 |
| Female | 31.3 | 41.8 | 37.7 | 50.3 | 43.8 | 48.6 | 47.0 | 24.6 | 58.3 | 50.0 | 47.5 | 48.4 | 36.6 | 32.5 | 38.7 | 40.2 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| No. of admissions | 142,630 | 9,649 | 16,594 | 1,277 | 1,170 | 1,182 | 2,470 | 92,895 | 8,789 | 114 | 419 | 254 | 344 | 80 | 457 | 6,936 |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||||||||||||
| White (non-Hispanic) | 55.2 | 61.3 | 63.0 | 79.5 | 88.4 | 64.5 | 68.8 | 51.1 | 58.8 | 65.8 | 74.8 | 62.4 | 70.3 | 51.3 | 58.9 | 59.1 |
| Black (non-Hispanic) | 18.3 | 9.1 | 8.3 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 12.6 | 4.8 | 23.5 | 1.8 | 8.8 | 4.8 | 6.4 | 8.6 | 19.7 | 3.8 | 19.2 |
| Hispanic origin | 18.9 | 20.0 | 16.1 | 13.8 | 4.1 | 17.3 | 22.0 | 18.6 | 29.6 | 14.0 | 14.5 | 27.6 | 12.2 | 22.4 | 26.9 | 16.2 |
| Mexican | 10.9 | 13.6 | 9.6 | 9.4 | 2.3 | 10.4 | 14.4 | 10.6 | 21.3 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 18.0 | 5.3 | 10.5 | 19.1 | 1.6 |
| Puerto Rican | 1.8 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 0.3 | - - | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 5.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| Cuban | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.2 | - - | 1.2 | - - | 0.3 | - - | - - | 0.2 |
| Other/not specified | 5.7 | 5.4 | 5.0 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 7.8 | 7.0 | 4.4 | 8.8 | 5.6 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 13.3 |
| Other | 7.7 | 9.5 | 12.5 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 4.4 | 6.7 | 9.9 | 11.4 | 5.8 | 3.6 | 8.9 | 6.6 | 10.4 | 5.5 |
| Alaska Native | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | - - | 0.5 | - - | 0.3 | - - | 0.2 | * |
| American Indian | 2.6 | 3.5 | 6.2 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 3.0 | 1.8 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 7.6 | 2.2 |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 2.3 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 4.4 | - - | 1.2 | 1.8 | - - | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| Other | 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 3.0 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 5.3 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 2.0 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| No. of admissions | 141,384 | 9,535 | 16,428 | 1,274 | 1,158 | 1,171 | 2,453 | 92,185 | 8,743 | 114 | 413 | 250 | 337 | 76 | 450 | 6,797 |
| * Less than 0.05 percent. | ||||||||||||||||
| - - Quantity is zero. | ||||||||||||||||
| SOURCE: Office of Applied Studies, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS). Data received through 10.3.06. | ||||||||||||||||