Table 2.
Drug used by the 295 participants of the project "Assessing HIV Oral Testing of Brazilian Drug Users".
| Use in life | Age of first time drug use | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | mean | standard-deviation | |
| Alcohol | 287 | 97.61 | 14.6 | 3.5 |
| Marijuana | 270 | 91.5 | 17.1 | 5.6 |
| Crack | 57 | 19.3 | 25.22 | 9.8 |
| Snorted cocaine | 199 | 67.5 | 18.4 | 5.9 |
| Injected cocaine | 23 | 7.8 | 19.1 | 3.9 |
| Snorted heroin | 15 | 5.1 | 20.22 | 4.6 |
| Injected heroin | 6 | 2.0 | 18.62 | 4.4 |
| Speedball (cocaine and heroin) | 8 | 2.7 | 20.3 | 5.7 |
| Methamphetamine/amphetamine | 33 | 11.2 | 19.62 | 5.9 |
| Anabolic steroids | 31 | 10.5 | 21.12 | 5.7 |
| Ecstasy | 47 | 15.9 | 21.72 | 6.6 |
| Inhalants | 180 | 61.0 | 19.32 | 7.9 |
| LSD | 22 | 7.51 | 21.4 | 5.4 |
| Barbituates (non-Rx) | 35 | 11.9 | 26.83 | 15.1 |
| Benzodiazepines (non-Rx) | 25 | 8.5 | 24.14 | 8.0 |
Rio de Janeiro, 2006
1 N = 294 2 1 missing 3 3 missing 4 5 missing