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It's not true that most drug users are ethnic minorities. You don't seem to have read the source that you actually cited. See [http://www.drugabuse.gov/pdf/minorities03.pdf], page 29. On page 28, the report notes that these data challenge the unsupported belief that minorities are disproportionately likely to use.--[[User:Murray|Murray]] 16:03, 12 March 2007 (EDT)
It's not true that most drug users are ethnic minorities. You don't seem to have read the source that you actually cited. See [http://www.drugabuse.gov/pdf/minorities03.pdf], page 29. On page 28, the report notes that these data challenge the unsupported belief that minorities are disproportionately likely to use.--[[User:Murray|Murray]] 16:03, 12 March 2007 (EDT)
:That's not what the article says. It says a disproportionate number of drug users are ethnic minorities. For example, if 20% of whites use drugs and 30% of blacks use drugs, then more whites use drugs than blacks, but a disproportionate number of blacks use drugs. That (with different numbers) is similar to the situation. --[[User:NVConservative|NVConservative]] 16:06, 12 March 2007 (EDT)
:That's not what the article says. It says a disproportionate number of drug users are ethnic minorities. For example, if 20% of whites use drugs and 30% of blacks use drugs, then more whites use drugs than blacks, but a disproportionate number of blacks use drugs. That (with different numbers) is similar to the situation. --[[User:NVConservative|NVConservative]] 16:06, 12 March 2007 (EDT)
::Not really. The new report you cited, the 2005 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, says that 47% of Caucasians have ever used illegal drugs, compared with 44% of African-Americans, 36% of Hispanics, and 20-37% of Asian-Americans, depending on the specific Asian subgroup. The only ethnic minority groups that are higher than Caucasians are Native Americans and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. --[[User:Murray|Murray]] 16:16, 12 March 2007 (EDT)