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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 20.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2009 Sep 24;207(2):291–301. doi: 10.1007/s00213-009-1655-8

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics

Participants
N 112
Sex 71 men, 41 women
Age mean 40.7 (SD 8.1, range 20–58) years
Education mean 11.8 years (SD 1.5, range 7–15)
Race/ethnicity 61% African-American, 37% white, 2% Hispanic
Employment 38% unemployed, 34% employed full-time, 27% employed part-time
Heroin Use at intake
 Days used in past 30 – mean 29.3 days (SD 3.3, range 5–30; the participant reporting 5 days of use had transferred from a community methadone program)
 Main route of administration - intravenous (IV, 61%) or intranasal (39%)
Cocaine Use at intake
 Days used in last 30 – mean 20.0 days (SD 9.2, range 4–30)
 Main route of administration - smoked (48%), intravenous (42%), intranasal (8%)