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) | ||
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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.