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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2008 Nov 17;100(1-2):63–70. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2008.09.013

Table 3.

Interactions between physical pain and selected risk factors on past year nonmedical use of prescription pain relievers

Non-disordered NMPAUa
Disordered NMPAUb
Wald Fc Sigc Conditional probabilityc SEc Wald Fc Sigc Conditional probabilityc SEc
Pain by past year prescription drug (RX)d 0.37 .689 2.59 .200
Pain by past year Disordered alcohol use 12.36 <.001 17.08 <.001
 No pain, non-disordered use .01 .001 .001 .001
 No pain, disordered use .02 .001 .006 .002
 Mod pain, non-disordered use .01 .001 .004 .001
 Mod pain, disordered use .03 .010 .008 .002
 High pain, non-disordered use .02 .001 .005 .002
 High pain, disordered use .04 .010 .014 .005
Pain by past year illicit drug usee 1.73 .161 2.39 .061
 No pain, no use .001 .001
 No pain, non-disordered use .002 .001
 No pain, disordered use .011 .004
 Mod pain, no use .004 .001
 Mod pain, non-disordered use .011 .006
 Mod pain, disordered use .080 .003
 High pain, no use .004 .001
 High pain, non-disordered use .012 .006
 High pain, disordered use .041 .026
Pain by past year mood disorder (MD) 0.58 .563 0.92 .403
Pain by past year anxiety disorder (AD) 2.16 .124 2.27 .112
Pain by anti-social personality disorder(ASPD) 1.40 .254 0.132 .879
a

Non-disordered non-medical use defined as use in the past year without DSM-IV past year opioid abuse or dependence.

b

Disordered non-medical use defined as DSM-IV abuse or dependence in the past year among past year users.

c

Estimates (Wald F, significance levels, conditional probability and standard error of conditional probability) control for other variables in model and age, sex, race, education, and income; 1.0 denotes reference category. Design adjustments performed using SUDAAN (release 9.2).

d

Includes stimulants, benzodiazepines, and tranquilizers.

e

Includes cocaine/crack, heroin, marijuana, inhalants, and hallucinogens.