Note: The following Graphs, Background, Area Description and Data Sources are an excerpt from the “Drug Abuse Trends Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN for January 2010, by Carol Falkowski, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division, Minnesota Department of Human Services. To download the entire PDF, please go to: http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/disabilities/documents/pub/dhs16_147922.pdf
Source: Drug and Alcohol Abuse Normative Evaluation System (DAANES), Minnesota Department of Human Services, 2009. Total number of admissions = 10,315. Primary substance unknown = 60.
Source: Drug and Alcohol Abuse Normative Evaluation System (DAANES), Minnesota Department of Human Services, 2009.
Source: Drug and Alcohol Abuse Normative Evaluation System (DAANES), Minnesota Department of Human Services, 2009.
Background
This report is produced twic annually for participation in the Community Epidemiology Work Group of the National Institue on Drug Abuse, an epidemiological surveillance network of research from 21 U.S. metropolitan areas, and is also available at: www.dhs.state.mn/adad
Area Description
The Minneapolis/St. Paul (”Twin Cities”) metropolitan area includes Minnesota’s largest city, Minneapolis (Hennepin County,) the capital city of St. Paul (Ramsey County,) and the surrounding counties of Anoka, Dakota, and Washington. Recent estimates of the population of each county are as follows: Anoka, 313,197; Dakotak, 375,462; Hennepin, 1,239,836; Ramsey 515,274; and Washington, 213,395, for a total of 2,557,165, or roughly one-half of the Minnesota State population. In the five-county metropolitan area, 84 percent of the population is white. African-Americans constitute the largest minority group in Hennepin County, while Asians are the largest minority group in Ramsey, Anoka, Dakota, and Washington Counties.
Data Sources
Treatment data are from addiction treatment programs (residential, outpatient) in the five-county Twin Cities metropolitan area as reported on the Drug and Alcohol Abuse Normative Evaluation System (DAANES) of the Minnesota Department of Human Services (through June 2009).
Crime laba data are from the National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS), sponsored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
College student alcohol use data are from the 2009 College Student Health Survey, conducted by Boynton Health Service, University of Minnesota. N = 5,692 students randomly selected from nine Minnesota colleges and universities.