Table IV.
Unadjusted Odds Ratios for Drug Use
| Drug usea (past 3 months) | Club drug useb (past 3 months) | IDU (ever) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/N | (%) | OR | (95% CI) | n/N | (%) | OR | (95% CI) | n/N | (%) | OR | (95% CI) | |
| Age | ||||||||||||
| 22+ yrs | 43/124 | (35) | 1 | 38/124 | (31) | 1 | 2/124 | (2) | 1 | |||
| 20 – 21 yrs | 52/196 | (27) | 0.68 | (.40–1.06) | 42/196 | (21) | 0.62+ | (.37–1.03) | 5/196 | (3) | 1.61 | (.31–8.41) |
| 18 – 19 yrs | 53/206 | (26) | 0.65+ | (.42–1.11) | 41/206 | (20) | 0.56* | (.34–.94) | 5/206 | (2) | 1.52 | (.29–7.94) |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||||||||
| Caucasian | 74/194 | (38) | 1 | 58/194 | (30) | 1 | 5/194 | (3) | 1 | |||
| Mexican descent | 51/205 | (25) | 0.54** | (.35–.83) | 43/205 | (21) | 0.62* | (.40–.98) | 6/205 | (3) | 1.15 | (.34–3.82) |
| African American | 23/127 | (18) | 0.36*** | (.21–.61) | 20/127 | (16) | 0.44** | (.25–.77) | 1/127 | (1) | 0.3 | (.04–2.60) |
| Ever lived on streets | ||||||||||||
| No | 131/490 | (27) | 1 | 104/490 | (21) | 1 | 9/490 | (2) | 1 | |||
| Yes | 17/36 | (47) | 2.45** | (1.24–4.86) | 17/36 | (47) | 3.32*** | (1.67–6.62) | 3/36 | (8) | 4.85* | (1.25–18.77) |
| Ever forced to move | ||||||||||||
| No | 114/435 | (26) | 1 | 93/435 | (21) | 1 | 7/435 | (2) | 1 | |||
| Yes | 34/91 | (37) | 1.68* | (1.04–2.70) | 28/91 | (31) | 1.63* | (.99–2.70) | 5/91 | (6) | 3.55* | (1.10–11.44) |
| Current residence | ||||||||||||
| Living with family | 62/281 | (22) | 1 | 50/281 | (18) | 1 | 10/497 | (2) | 1 | |||
| Own apartment/dorm | 64/191 | (34) | 1.78** | (1.18–2.69) | 52/191 | (27) | 1.73* | (1.11–2.69) | ||||
| Living with friend, partner | 14/36 | (39) | 2.25* | (1.09–4.65) | 11/36 | (31) | 2.03+ | (.94–4.40) | ||||
| No regular place to stay | 8/18 | (44) | 2.83* | (1.08–7.47) | 8/18 | (44) | 3.7** | (1.39–9.84) | 2/18 c | (11) | 6.21+ | (1.28–30.7) |
Note: Bolded OR denotes significance at p <= .01;
+
p < .10;
*
p ≤ .05;
**
p ≤ .01;
***
p ≤ .001.
a
Drugs used with exception of marijuana.
b
Club drug use and drug use are not mutually exclusive categories.
c
The categories for current residence were collapsed into “no regular place to stay” and “have a regular place to stay” in order to increase cell sizes in the calculation of the unadjusted odds ratio for variable IDU; Fisher exact test of significance was used for analyses of these variables.