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. 2006 Aug 10;82(5):354–358. doi: 10.1136/sti.2006.020693

Table 2 Lifetime and past 30 day drug use, depression, and runaway experience among youths who have exchanged sex and youths who have never exchanged sex.

Exchanged (n = 471) % Never exchanged (n = 12 823) % Unadjusted odds ratio*† (95% CI)
Alcohol
 Ever 67.3 65.2 1.10 (0.81 to 1.50)
 Past 30 days 37.2 32.0 1.26 (0.95 to 1.67)
 Binge drinking in past year 35.0 29.3 1.30 (0.99 to 1.72)
 Binge drinking in past 30 days 30.9 19.8 1.81 (1.34 to 2.44)
Marijuana
 Ever 53.6 35.2 2.13 (1.60 to 2.83)
 Past 30 days 28.1 16.2 2.02 (1.49 to 2.73)
Cocaine
 Ever 23.8 4.0 7.57 (5.57 to 10.29)
 Past 30 days 10.6 1.0 11.58 (7.08 to 18.94)
Injection drugs
 Ever 10.6 0.7 16.77 (10.00 to 28.12)
 Past 30 days 3.8 0.1 33.84 (12.60 to 90.91)
Other illegal drugs
 Ever 30.2 10.4 3.73 (2.84 to 4.92)
 Past 30 days 12.3 3.4 4.02 (2.68 to 6.02)
Inhalants
 Ever 22.6 7.3 3.70 (2.57 to 5.33)
 Past 30 days 6.0 0.9 6.93 (2.84 to 16.88)
Cigarettes
 Ever 73.5 65.0 1.49 (1.07 to 2.07)
 Past 30 days 43.8 34.6 1.47 (1.14 to 1.91)
Chewing tobacco or snuff
 Past 30 days 33.2 6.8 6.84 (4.88 to 9.58)
Depressed 21.6 10.7 2.31 (1.67 to 3.17)
Ran away in past year 15.5 5.8 2.99 (2.10 to 4.25)

CI, confidence interval.

*All correlates are dichotomous variables; the reference groups for odds ratios are the “0” or “no” categories.

†Odds ratios in which p<0.05 are shown in bold.