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Table 55. Percentage1 of Adult Male Booked Arrestees Who Used Opiates, by Location, 1991–2000


Location

Year

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

Albany (Capital Area)

7

Albuquerque

8

14

12

Anchorage

2

3

4

Atlanta

3

4

3

2

3

3

2

1

4

3

Birmingham

5

3

4

4

2

4

5

4

4

10

Charlotte

2

Chicago

21

19

28

27

22

20

22

18

20

Cleveland

3

3

4

3

5

3

4

6

4

4

Dallas

4

4

4

3

5

5

4

2

5

3

Denver

2

2

4

4

5

5

4

4

3

3

Des Moines

3

1

3

Detroit

8

8

8

7

7

7

5

7

9

8

Ft. Lauderdale

1

1

1

1

2

2

3

2

1

2

Honolulu

7

Houston

3

3

2

3

5

8

10

8

6

7

Indianapolis

3

4

4

3

2

3

3

2

3

3

Laredo

11

11

10

Las Vegas

3

5

5

Los Angeles

10

10

9

10

7

6

6

6

6

Miami

2

2

2

2

3

1

2

2

3

4

Minneapolis

5

4

3

New Orleans

4

4

5

5

7

7

11

13

14

16

New York City2

14

18

20

19

20

17

19

16

15

21

Oklahoma City

2

2

3

Omaha

2

2

2

2

1

1

2

2

0

2

Philadelphia

11

12

11

14

12

11

11

18

15

12

Phoenix

5

5

6

6

8

9

9

6

8

7

Portland

9

11

11

12

15

13

14

16

13

14

Sacramento

3

4

3

St. Louis

6

7

9

11

11

10

10

11

Salt Lake City

8

9

7

San Antonio

16

15

14

13

10

10

10

10

10

10

San Diego

17

16

16

12

8

9

7

9

9

6

San Jose

8

4

6

6

5

5

6

4

4

6

Seattle

17

14

10

Spokane

9

7

8

Tucson

7

9

9

Washington, DC

10

11

10

9

8

9

10

10

16

— Data not available.

1Percent positive by urinalysis, January through December of each year. Percentages are rounded.
2Data before the third quarter of 1998 pertain to Manhattan only.

Sources: 1991–1996 data from Drug Use Forecasting (1991–1996); 1997–1998 data from Annual Report on Adult and Juvenile Arrestees (1997 and 1998); 1999 data from 1999 Annual Report on Drug Use Among Adult and Juvenile Arrestees, Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program (ADAM), National Institute of Justice (NIJ); 2000 data from 2000 Annualized Site Visit Reports, ADAM, NIJ (2001).