Table 2.

Substance use among people living with HIV/AIDS who had not been and who had been diagnosed with a recent STI.

	Not Diagnosed with recent STI (N = 420)		Diagnosed with recent STI (N = 70)		t
	M	SD	M	SD
AUDIT score	2.5	4.6	4.1	5.9	2.6**
Audit score among drinkers	4.7	5.2	7.2	6.4	2.5**
DAST Score	1.3	1.5	1.7	1.7	1.9
	N	%	N	%	X2
Currently drink alcohol	214	51	37	53	0.1
Frequency of current alcohol use
Never	205	49	33	47
Monthly	115	27	19	27
2-4 times per month	57	14	11	16
2-3 times per week	33	8	6	9
4 or more times per week	9	2	1	1	0.4
Possible problem drinker on AUDIT	36	9	16	23	12.8**
Cannabis use	15	4	8	11	8.2**
Cocaine use	17	4	2	4	0.9
Other drugs	2	1	1	1	n/a

Note:

^*p <.05,

^**p < .01