These numbers represent the hard-core, high consumption users. Those who report using crack in the past year has consistently been twice the number of monthly crack users. As a percentage, past month use of cocaine by blacks was more frequent than that of whites, but whites are overwhelmingly the majority of cocaine consumers. Whites between 17 and 25 use cocaine much more than blacks. Over age 26 the pattern is reversed.
Cocaine use is significantly higher among the unemployed than the employed.