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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 19.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2015 Aug 21;155:97–104. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2015.08.010

Table 3.

Perceived ease of access to illicit substances and drug offers among homeschooled adolescents in the United States.

Have you been home-schooled at any time during the past 12 months?
No
(n = 199,503; 99.32%)
Yes
(n = 1321; 0.68%)
Unadjusted
Adjusted
% 95% CI % 95% CI OR (95% CI) AOR (95% CI)
How difficult or easy would it be for you to get some:
Marijuana
Impossible/very difficult/fairly difficult 48.08 (47.78–48.38) 69.26 (65.65–72.64) 1.00 1.00
Fairly easy/very easy 51.92 (51.62–52.22) 30.74 (27.36–34.35) 0.41 (0.35–0.48) 0.38 (0.32–0.46)
Cocaine
Impossible/very difficult/fairly difficult 77.91 (77.66–78.16) 81.67 (78.74–84.28) 1.00 1.00
Fairly easy/very easy 22.09 (21.84–22.34) 18.33 (15.72–21.26) 0.79 (0.66–0.95) 0.81 (0.67–0.98)
Crack
Impossible/very difficult/fairly difficult 77.13 (76.88–77.38) 81.89 (78.60–84.78) 1.00 1.00 v
Fairly easy/very easy 22.87 (22.62–23.12) 18.11 (15.22–21.40) 0.74 (0.60–0.92) 0.76 (0.61–0.94)
LSD
Impossible/very difficult/fairly difficult 85.16 (84.94–85.37) 87.67 (85.07–89.87) 1.00 1.00
Fairly easy/very easy 14.84 (14.63–15.06) 12.33 (10.13–14.93) 0.81 (0.65–1.01) 0.83 (0.66–1.04)
Drug offers
In the past 30 days, has anyone approached you to sell you an illegal drug?
No 85.02 (84.81–85.23) 93.03 (91.05–94.60) 1.00 1.00
Yes 14.98 (14.77–15.19) 6.97 (5.40–8.95) 0.42 (0.32–0.56) 0.43 (0.33–0.57)

Adjusted odds ratios adjusted for age, gender, race/ethnicity, and household income.

Odds ratios and confidence intervals in bold are statistically significant.