Table 3.
History of drug use and rehabilitation
| MMT + VCT + ART + DGH | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMT + VCT | Rural | Urban | MMT + RPC | All | p value | ||||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| History of drug use | |||||||||||
| Age first used drug | 24.3 | 7.0 | 26.6 | 7.4 | 25.3 | 6.7 | 23.5 | 6.1 | 24.1 | 6.5 | 0.21 |
| Time since first episode (year) | 13.5 | 5.1 | 11.2 | 5.3 | 12.2 | 5.9 | 14.5 | 6.2 | 13.5 | 5.7 | <0.01 |
| Time since first drug injection (year) | 10.9 | 4.4 | 7.9 | 3.9 | 9.2 | 4.6 | 11.0 | 5.5 | 10.9 | 4.9 | 0.02 |
| Drug rehabilitation | |||||||||||
| Number of episodes | 5.7 | 7.2 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 4.2 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 6.9 | 4.8 | 6.2 | 0.02 |
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | ||
| Location of rehabilitation | |||||||||||
| Home, self-managed | 213 | 85.9 | 103 | 75.7 | 132 | 68.8 | 226 | 61.8 | 674 | 71.6 | <0.01 |
| Voluntary centers | 108 | 43.6 | 50 | 36.8 | 97 | 50.5 | 195 | 53.3 | 450 | 47.8 | <0.01 |
| Compulsory centers | 74 | 29.8 | 13 | 9.6 | 32 | 16.7 | 137 | 37.4 | 256 | 27.2 | <0.01 |
| Reason for relapse | |||||||||||
| Boredom | 91 | 36.7 | 31 | 22.8 | 80 | 41.7 | 162 | 44.3 | 364 | 38.6 | <0.01 |
| Peer inducement | 115 | 46.4 | 67 | 49.3 | 106 | 55.2 | 189 | 51.6 | 477 | 50.6 | 0.30 |
| Craving | 107 | 43.2 | 62 | 45.6 | 96 | 50.0 | 168 | 45.9 | 433 | 46.0 | 0.56 |
| Unemployment | 11 | 4.4 | 3 | 2.2 | 6 | 3.1 | 29 | 7.9 | 49 | 5.2 | 0.02 |