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Published in final edited form as: J Subst Abuse Treat. 2012 Sep 6;44(3):271–279. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2012.07.012

Table 2.

Polynomial logistic regression predicting membership in 10-year drug use trajectory groups (N=504)

Model 1: Main effects Model 2: Interaction effects
Remains high (vs. Remains low) Decreases then increases (vs. Remains low) Increases then decreases (vs. Remains low) Remains high (vs. Remains low) Decreases then increases (vs. Remains low) Increases then decreases (vs. Remains low)
Estimate Estimate Estimate Estimate Estimate Estimate
Intercept −3.229 −1.270 −1.301 −4.019 −1.886 −1.741
First drug treatment as young adult (vs. older adult) 1.345 c 0.417 0.888 a 2.525 c 1.490 a 1.172
Male (vs. female) −0.502 −1.142 c −1.278 b −0.009 −0.838 −0.310
White race/ethnicity (vs. all others) 0.371 0.021 −0.251 0.423 −0.008 −0.209
≥High school (vs. < high school) −0.144 0.312 0.155 −0.145 0.266 0.220
Married (vs. not married) −0.585 −0.202 −0.292 −0.598 −0.202 −0.027
Project
 CTE (vs. TPROC) −0.878 0.692 0.392 −0.959 0.675 0.333
 METH (vs. TPROC) −0.284 −0.046 0.257 −0.376 −0.103 0.267
 TUE (vs. TPROC) 0.578 −0.159 0.648 0.574 −0.291 0.724
Primary drug type is heroin (vs. all others) 2.398 c 0.626 1.393 a 2.552 c 0.577 2.279 b
Age at 1st arrest (continuous) 0.048 0.034 −0.021 0.054 0.039 −0.011
Age at 1st use (continuous) −0.018 −0.040 −0.050 −0.017 −0.033 −0.052
Over 10 yrs after first drug treatment
 Mos incarcerated (continuous) −0.040 a 0.014 −0.007 −0.021 0.025a −0.029
 Mos in drug treatment (continuous) 0.003 −0.019 0.003 0.012 0.012 −0.037
 Mos employed (continuous) −0.0006 −0.005 0.002 0.005 −0.011 0.003
Interactions: First drug treatment as young adult (vs. older adult) X
 Male (vs. female) -- -- -- −0.841 −0.704 −1.508
 Primary drug type is heroin (vs. all others) -- -- -- −0.263 0.002 −1.697
 Mos incarcerated over 10 years after 1st treatment (continuous) -- -- -- −0.025 −0.016 0.034
 Mos in drug treatment over 10 yrs after 1st treatment (continuous) -- -- -- −0.022 −0.065 a 0.049
 Mos employed over 10 yrs after 1st treatment (continuous) -- -- -- −0.009 0.008 −0.001
a

p < 0.05.

b

p < 0.01.

c

p < 0.001.