Table 1.
Sociodemographics, personality, and drug use compared between stimulant-using and stimulant-naive subjects.
| Stimulant Users | Controls | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Range | Mean | SD | Range | t | p | |
| Age (yrs) | 21.00 | 2.24 | 18–25 | 22.18 | 3.84 | 18–28 | 0.90 | .39 |
| Education (yrs) | 14.64 | 1.21 | 13–16 | 14.64 | 1.80 | 13–18 | 0.00 | 1.00 |
| BIS total | 68.10 | 6.19 | 60–81 | 60.13 | 5.69 | 49–67 | 2.81 | .01 |
| SSS total | 22.94 | 5.03 | 15–30 | 20.93 | 6.57 | 9–32 | 0.74 | .47 |
| N | % | N | % | |||||
| Gender | ||||||||
| Female | 10 | 91% | 9 | 82% | ||||
| Male | 1 | 9% | 2 | 18% | ||||
| Ethnicity | ||||||||
| Caucasian | 7 | 64% | 5 | 45% | ||||
| Hispanic | 2 | 18% | 3 | 27% | ||||
| Filipino | 1 | 9% | 2 | 18% | ||||
| Asian | 0 | 0% | 1 | 9% | ||||
| Mixed | 1 | 9% | 0 | 0% | ||||
| Ever Used | ||||||||
| Stimulants | 11 | 100% | 0 | 0% | ||||
| Tobacco | 5 | 45% | 0 | 0% | ||||
| Marijuana | 11 | 100% | 5 | 45% | ||||
| Ecstasy | 3 | 27% | 0 | 0% | ||||
| Opiates | 2 | 18% | 0 | 0% | ||||
| Sedatives | 1 | 9% | 0 | 0% | ||||
| Hallucinogens | 1 | 9% | 0 | 0% | ||||