Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of patients with a cocaine-related ED visit

Variables	Percentage/ Mean (Standard Deviation)
Socio-Economic Variables
Age	38.47 (8.88)
Male	58.2 %
African American	78.2 %
Never Married/Single	80.0 %
High School Graduate	57.1 %
Employed	37.1 %
Income Category
Less than $10,000	36.5 %
$10,000-$19,999	37.7 %
$20,000 or more	25.9 %
Need Variables
Met lifetime substance dependence criteria (0/1)	76.5 %
Met lifetime substance abuse criteria (0/1)	10.0 %
# of drinking days in prior 4 weeks (0-28)	10.7 (10.3)
# of days using cocaine in prior 4 weeks (0-28)	6.9 (8.4)
Number of Medical comorbidities (0-22)	1.8 (1.9)
Psychiatric comorbidities (0-4)
Somatization	1.1 (0.9)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder	1.0 (0.9)
Interpersonal sensitivity	0.9 (1.1)
Depression	1.2 (1.1)
Anxiety	1.0 (0.9)
Hostility	0.8 (0.9)
Phobic anxiety	0.5 (0.7)
Paranoid ideation	0.9 (1.0)
Psychoticism	0.8 (0.9)
Additional items	1.3 (1.1)
Global severity index	1.0 (0.8)
Antisocial personality disorder (0/1)	30.6%
SF-36 (0-100)
Mental health component score	51.0 (25.3)
Physical health component score	56.9 (28.4)
Barriers to Care Variables
Geographical/Financial barriers (1-3)	0.3 (0.6)
Temporal barriers (1-5)	0.1 (0.3)
Stigma barriers (1-5)	0.1 (0.5)
Treatment ineffective/unacceptable (1-4)	0.1 (0.3)
Lack of perceived need (1-3)	0.4 (0.5)
Cue Variables
Negative life events	3.0 (2.4)
Consequences of Substance Abuse (0-9 scale)
Physical consequences	3.3 (3.0)
Interpersonal consequences	3.3 (3.4)
Intrapersonal consequences	4.1 (3.3)
Impulse control consequences	2.5 (2.4)
Social responsibility consequences	3.9 (3.1)
Readiness to Change Variables
Stages of change
Ambivalence/recognition scale (11-55)	38.9 (12.0)
Taking Steps scale (8-40)	27.5 (7.2)
Social Support
Average of all types of support (1-5)	4.1 (1.0)
Sobriety support (0-100)	39.4 (28.9)
Prior Treatment
Formal treatment in prior 12 months (0/1)	12.9 %
Informal treatment in prior 12 months (0/1)	14.7 %