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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2014 Apr 8;140:69–77. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2014.03.029

Table 3.

Summary statistics on health state episode durations

Episode Duration (months) Censored
N Mean Median Q1 Q3 N %
Primary Heroin Users [N=629]
Incarceration 3422 11.6 6 3 13 95 3.0
Treatment 2546 16.5 10 3 18 169 7.0
Abstinence 1424 37.1 12 4 35 243 17.0
Non-Daily Use 2268 14.7 8 3 18 65 3.0
Daily Use 4202 12.7 7 3 15 57 1.0
All Episodes 13862 15.9 8 3 17 629 4.5
Primary Methamphetamine Users [N=474]
Incarceration 1101 7.6 4 2 9 65 6.0
Treatment 880 5.1 3 2 6 37 4.0
Abstinence 1613 18.0 7 3 20 283 18.0
Non-Daily Use 1260 15.1 6 1.5 18.5 72 6.0
Daily Use 1346 17.3 9 4 21 17 1.0
All Episodes 6200 13.6 6 2 14 474 7.6
Primary Cocaine Users [N=694]
Incarceration 1073 7.8 4 2 10 64 6.0
Treatment 1297 5.8 3 1 7 80 6.0
Abstinence 2759 21.3 7 3 21 432 16.0
Non-Daily Use 2724 15.7 6 1 18 88 3.0
Daily Use 1677 18.1 9 4 21 30 2.0
All Episodes 9530 15.5 6 2 16 694 7.3

Q1 indicates the lower (first) quartile and Q3 the upper (third) quartile.