Table 1.
Pre-treatment patient demographic, recent drug use, Addiction Severity Index, and Baltimore Risk Assessment Battery information (N=76)
| Characteristic | M | SD |
|---|---|---|
| Age in years | 31.3 | 6.13 |
| Years of education completed | 11.7 | 1.52 |
| Estimated gestational age at study entry | 21.4 | 7.71 |
| % | ||
| Race | ||
| Black or minority status | 56.6 | |
| White | 43.4 | |
| Hispanic | 2.7 | |
| Unemployed | 89.5 | |
| Not currently married | 85.5 | |
| On probation or parole | 32.9 | |
| Self-reported drug use in the 30 days prior to treatment entry | ||
| cocaine | 69.7 | |
| heroin | 65.8 | |
| other opioids | 15.8 | |
| alcohol | 30.3 | |
| Ever injected | 44.7 | |
| Addiction Severity Index (ASI) Composite Scores | M | SD |
| ASI Medical composite score | .32 | .35 |
| ASI Employment composite score | .83 | .21 |
| ASI Drug composite score | .28 | .11 |
| ASI Alcohol composite score | .04 | .10 |
| ASI Legal composite score | .18 | .24 |
| ASI Psychiatric composite score | .19 | .22 |
| ASI Family/Social composite score | .25 | .27 |
| Baltimore Risk Assessment Battery | M | SD |
| Sex Risk Scale: | 5.1 | 3.3 |
| % | ||
| Sexual Orientation (Straight v. Bisexual): Straight | 86.7 | |
| M | SD | |
| With how many men have you had sex? | 1.28 | .88 |
| With how many women have you had sex? | .16 | .52 |
| How often have you had sex so you could get drugs? | .49 | .95 |
| How often have you given drugs to someone so that you could have sex with them? | .11 | .42 |
| How often were you paid money to have sex with someone? | .50 | .99 |
| How often did you use condoms when you had sex? | 1.33 | 1.33 |
| How often did you give money to someone so you could have sex with them? | .04 | .20 |
| How often have you had sex with someone you knew (or later found out) had AIDS or was positive for HIV, the AIDS virus? | 0 | 0 |
| Drug Risk Scale: | 2.6 | 5.3 |
| % | ||
| Have you injected drugs? | 34.7 | |
| Have you shared needles or works? | 16.0 | |
| M | SD | |
| With how many different people did you share needles? | .20 | .47 |
| How often have others used after you (with or without cleaning)? | .29 | .63 |
| How often have you been to a shooting gallery/house or other place where users go to shoot up? | .29 | .78 |
| How often have you shared rinse-water? | .31 | .79 |
| How often have you shared cooker? | .36 | .85 |
| How often have you shared cotton? | .36 | .87 |
| how often have you shared a straw or dollar bill? | .33 | .79 |
| How often have you divided or shared drugs with others by using one syringe (yours or someone else’s) to squirt or load the drugs into other syringe(s)? | .28 | .65 |
| How often have you shared needles with someone you knew (or Later found out) had AIDS or was positive for HIV, the AIDSvirus? | 0 | 0 |
Notes. The BRAB questions refer to the “past 30 days”. To calculate the BRAB HIV sex-risk score, the sexual orientation is scored 1 for “bisexual”, while the remaining 8 items use a 4-point rating scale, scored 0–3 (e.g., 0 = “Not at All”, 3 = “Everyday”). To calculate the BRAB HIV drug-risk score, the injected drugs and shared needles questions are scored 1 for “yes”, while the remaining 9 items use a 4-point rating scale, scored 0–3 (e.g., 0 = “Not at All”, 3 = “Everyday”). Thus, the potential range of scores for the HIV sex-risk scale is 0–25, while the potential range of scores for the HIV drug-risk scale is 0–29.