Table 2. Past Year Quantity of Drug Use (in Standard Units) According to Group and Gender.
| Ecstasy Users (N = 48) | MJ Users (N = 17) | ||||||||||||
| Males (N = 26) | Females (N = 22) | Males (N = 8) | Females (N = 9) | Kruskal-Wallis | |||||||||
| Drugs | M (N) | SD | Range | M (N) | SD | Range | M (N) | SD | Range | M (N) | SD | Range | p |
| Ecstasy | 17 (26) | 21 | 1–89 | 12 (22) | 24 | 1–116 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .00 a |
| Alcohol | 564 (25) | 534 | 20–1836 | 244 (20) | 204 | 14–662 | 296 (8) | 297 | 2–906 | 356 (9) | 537 | 8–1254 | .13 |
| Marijuana | 603 (24) | 910 | 1–3650 | 386 (20) | 739 | 1–3185 | 306 (8) | 189 | 7–608 | 256 (9) | 262 | 5–728 | .50 |
| Opioids* | 29 (7) | 60 | 1–164 | 4 (3) | 1 | 3–5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .12 |
| Cocaine | 21 (13) | 31 | 1–110 | 2 (11) | 3 | 1–8 | 54 (2) | 70 | 4–103 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .05 c |
| Methamph. | 5 (4) | 9 | 1–18 | 10 (8) | 23 | 1–67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .03 b |
| Sedatives‡ | 21 (15) | 43 | 2–150 | 14 (10) | 17 | 1–51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (1) | 0 | 2 | .01 a |
| LSD/PCP | 5 (7) | 6 | 1–18 | 2 (7) | 2 | 1–5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .10 |
| Mushrooms | 10 (16) | 22 | 1–91 | 3 (8) | 4 | 1–12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .00 a |
| Inhalants | 15 (16) | 30 | 1–104 | 10 (5) | 5 | 5–18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .15 |
Mean quantities were calculated only for participants who reported using the specific drug at least one time in the past year.
*Includes heroin and opioids.
‡
Includes GHB, ketamine, barbiturates, ‘downers,’ Valium, Xanax, and Ativan. Methamph = methamphetamine. a = Ecstasy users > MJ users, b = Ecstasy females > all other groups, c = Ecstasy users > MJ females.