Statistics about Cocaine abuse
Cocaine abuse Prevalence: Book Excerpts
Death and mortality statistics for Cocaine abuse:
Deaths from Cocaine abuse: 87 deaths in the UK 1999 (National Statistics, UK Government, 2001)
Death rate extrapolations for USA for Cocaine abuse:
87 per year,
7 per month,
1 per week,
0 per day,
0 per hour,
0 per minute,
0 per second.
Note: this extrapolation calculation uses the deaths statistic: 87 deaths in the UK 1999 (National Statistics, UK Government, 2001)
Death statistics for Cocaine abuse:
The following are statistics from various sources
about deaths and Cocaine abuse:
- Deaths rose from 19 in 1995 to 87 in 1999 in the UK (National Statistics, UK Government, 2001)
- more about deaths...»
Society statistics for Cocaine abuse
Hospitalization statistics for Cocaine abuse:
The following are statistics from various sources
about hospitalizations and Cocaine abuse:
- 0.002% (276) of hospital consultant episodes were for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 91% of hospital consultant episodes for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 67% of hospital consultant episodes for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 33% of hospital consultant episodes for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 74% of hospital consultant episodes for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 12.2 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 6 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 31 was the mean age of patients hospitalised for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 97% of hospital consultant episodes for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine occurred in 15-59 year olds in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0% of hospital consultant episodes for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine occurred in people over 75 in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 1% of hospital consultant episodes for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine were single day episodes in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0.006% (3,290) of hospital bed days were for mental and behavioural disorders due to use of cocaine in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
About statistics:
This page presents a variety of statistics about Cocaine abuse.
The term 'prevalence' of Cocaine abuse usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Cocaine abuse at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Cocaine abuse refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Cocaine abuse diagnosed each year.
Hence, these two statistics types can differ:
a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence,
but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence.
For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
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