Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of 122 illicit drug users who ever intentionally used cannabis to reduce crack cocaine use, stratified by daily crack cocaine use in the last six months
| Characteristic | Total (%) (n = 122) |
≥ Daily crack cocaine use
|
p — value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (%) (n = 45) | No (%) (n = 77) | |||
| Socio-demographic characteristics | ||||
| Age (med, IQR) | 46 (34–53) | 45 (34–54) | 47 (35–52) | 0.853£ |
| Male gender | 89 (73.0) | 29 (64.4) | 60 (77.9) | 0.106 |
| Caucasian ethnicity | 61 (50.0) | 21 (46.7) | 40 (52.0) | 0.574 |
| High school education or higher* | 59 (48.4) | 23 (51.1) | 36 (46.8) | 0.691 |
| Residency in the Downtown Eastside* | 68 (55.7) | 27 (60.0) | 41 (53.3) | 0.469 |
| Seek treatment for crack* | 22 (18.0) | 11 (24.4) | 11 (14.3) | 0.159 |
| Frequency of cannabis use* | ||||
| Did not use | 17 (13.9) | 5 (11.1) | 12 (15.6) | 0.837€ |
| Less than once a month | 6 (4.9) | 1 (2.2) | 5 (6.5) | |
| 1–3 times a month | 8 (6.6) | 3 (6.7) | 5 (6.5) | |
| About once a week | 10 (8.2) | 5 (11.1) | 5 (6.5) | |
| 2–3 times a week | 23 (18.9) | 9 (20.0) | 14 (18.2) | |
| ≥ Daily | 58 (47.5) | 22 (48.9) | 36 (46.7) | |
*
Refers to the 6-month period prior to the interview
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Wilcoxon rank sum test
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Fisher’s exact test