Data and Confidence Limits for Drug-Induced Death by New Mexico County 2007-2009

County Deaths per 100,000 Population Lower Limit Upper Limit
Bernalillo 28.4 26.1 30.9
Catron 17.7 1.3 104.0
Chaves 24.8 18.0 33.7
Cibola 15.2 8.0 30.1
Colfax 20.7 9.6 41.3
Curry 14.4 8.8 23.4
De Baca 15.1 0.4 147.0
Dona Ana 16.5 13.3 20.4
Eddy 28.3 20.3 38.8
Grant 34.4 23.1 49.7
Guadalupe 27.1 7.3 128.0
Harding 0.0
Hidalgo 21.2 4.3 66.4
Lea 17.0 11.3 25.2
Lincoln 16.5 8.1 31.8
Los Alamos 12.8 4.7 30.8
Luna 6.5 2.1 16.4
McKinley 12.7 8.4 21.4
Mora 12.8 2.6 61.0
Otero 19.7 14.0 28.1
Quay 21.8 7.4 53.4
Rio Arriba 52.2 40.6 68.0
Roosevelt 9.1 2.9 23.6
Sandoval 18.1 13.9 23.8
San Juan 16.6 12.7 21.6
San Miguel 26.8 16.8 42.2
Santa Fe 19.6 15.8 24.6
Sierra 24.0 11.5 48.9
Socorro 23.9 13.0 46.0
Taos 29.7 19.1 45.4
Torrance 21.1 10.8 46.1
Union 5.5 0.1 55.7
Valencia 26.0 19.7 34.5
NM 22.8 21.6 24.0
US 12.7
Record Count: 35

Data Notes

Death rates were age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population. Prior to 1999, drug-induced death was defined by ICD-9 codes: 292, 304, 305.2-305.9, E850-E858, E950.0-E950.5, E962.0, E980.0-E980.5. For 1999 and beyond, drug-induced death was defined by ICD-10 codes: D52.1, D59.0, D59.2, D61.1, D64.2, E06.4, E16.0, E23.1, E24.2, E27.3, E66.1, F11-16 (.0-.5, .7-.9), F17 (.0, .3-.5, .7-.9), F18-F19 (.0-.5, .7-.9), G21.1, G24.0, G 25.1, G25.4, G25.6, G44.4, G62.0, G72.0, I95.2, J70.2-J70.4, L10.5, L27.0-L27.1, M10.2, M32.0, M80.4, M81.4, M83.5, M87.1, R78.1-R78.5, X40-X44, X60-X64, X85, Y10-14.  Rates for the following counties are unreliable due to a small number of deaths during the three years: Catron, De Baca, Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Mora and Union. There were no deaths in Harding County. The 2006 drug-induced death rate is shown for the U.S.

Data Sources

Population Source: Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) Population Estimates, University of New Mexico. http://www.unm.edu/~bber/.New Mexico Death Data: Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics (BVRHS), New Mexico Department of Health.

Other Views


Definition

Drug-induced death is defined as the number of deaths caused by drugs per 100,000 population. Drug-induced deaths are those in which drugs are the primary cause, whether unintentional or intentional.

How We Calculated the Rates

Numerator: The total number of drug-induced deaths per year.
Denominator: The mid-year estimated population for annual rates.

Date Indicator Content Last Updated: 12/22/2010


Drug Use Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Response Division, New Mexico Department of Health, 1190 St. Francis Dr., Room N1105, P.O. Box 26110, Santa Fe, NM, 87502. Contact Nina Shah, Drug Use Epidemiologist, by telephone at (505) 476-3607 or email to Nina.Shah@state.nm.us.
The information provided above is from the New Mexico Department of Health's NM-IBIS web site (http://ibis.health.state.nm.us). The information published on this website may be reproduced without permission. Please use the following citation: "Retrieved Thu, 23 May 2013 18:36:41 from New Mexico Department of Health, Indicator-Based Information System for Public Health Web site: http://ibis.health.state.nm.us".

Content updated: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:14:00 MDT