. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Rev. 2016 Apr 29;36(2):253–260. doi: 10.1111/dar.12411

Table 1. Participant characteristics.

Participant characteristics	n = 39
Age
Mean	46 years
Range	26 – 64 years
Gender
Men	22
Women	17
Race
White	28
Aboriginal ancestry	10
African–Canadian	1
Health status
HIV-positive	20
Drug use (30 days prior to interview)^*
Heroin	26
Crack cocaine	19
Cocaine (injected)	13
Crystal methamphetamine	9

Possible to report the use of more than one drug