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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2012 Jan 11;226(4):739–746. doi: 10.1007/s00213-011-2592-x

Table 1.

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics.

Characteristic Overall
N=32
PBO-
Only
DCS-
Only
DCS-
PBO
P Value

N=10 N=10 N=12
Age (years) 43.8 ± 8.2 45.1 ±
8.3
43.4 ±
10.9
43.1 ±
5.9
0.762
Male n (%) 22 (68.8) 6 (60.0) 9 (90.0) 7 (58.3) 0.227
White n (%) 6 (18.8) 3 (30.0) 2 (20.0) 1 (8.3) 0.459
HS Graduates n (%) 22 (68.8) 9 (90.0) 5 (50.0) 8 (66.7) 0.175
Married n (%) 3 (9.4) 2 (20.0) 1 (10.0) 0 (0.0) --
Employed n (%) 5 (15.6) 0 (0.0) 2 (20.0) 3 (25.0) --
Smoker n (%) 28 (87.5) 7 (70.0) 10
(100.0)
11 (91.7) --
Age at first COC use 23.8 ± 7.5 20.7 ±
5.2
24.8 ±
9.4
25.7 ±
7.2
0.299
Total years of COC use 16.7 ± 7.9 19.6 ±
10.5
15.5 ±
7.7
15.3 ±
4.9
0.470
# days COC use in
previous 90
31.0 ±
22.1
30.2 ±
21.3
37.8 ±
20.5
25.9 ±
24.2
0.231
Use per using day ($
amount)
73.6 ±
70.4
107.1 ±
97.5
64.4 ±
67.2
53.3 ±
30.2
0.405
Enrolled in treatment n
(%)
7 (21.9) 5 (50.0) 1 (10.0) 1 (8.3) 0.058
Craving at session 1
baseline
3.2 ± 2.7 3.3 ± 3.2 3.1 ± 2.9 3.2 ± 2.3 0.981