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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 11.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2016 May 9;164:120–127. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.04.037

Table 2.

Correlates of interest in receiving methadone in prison.

Characteristics Bivariate Analysis
Final Model
Unadjusted OR* 95% CI p-value Adjusted OR** 95% CI p-value
Marital status
 Currently Married 1.00 1.00
 Never Married 2.15 1.03, 4.50 0.043 1.72 0.70, 4.23 0.241
 Previously Married 3.20 1.12, 9.11 0.029 4.15 1.15, 15.02 0.030
Prior history of incarceration 4.53 1.48, 13.84 0.008 5.68 1.54, 21.02 0.009
Depression 1.75 0.97, 3.15 0.062 3.66 1.68, 7.98 0.001
Prior methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) 1.82 1.02, 3.23 0.041
Poly-substance use in the 30 days prior to incarceration 1.93 1.07, 3.46 0.027
Ever injected drugs 2.77 1.45, 5.29 0.002
Frequency of heroin use in 30 days prior to incarceration
 None 1.00 1.00
 Intermittent 4.06 1.15, 14.39 0.030 2.91 0.72, 11.86 0.135
 Daily 6.66 2.19, 20.27 <0.001 5.53 1.65, 18.58 0.006
Opioid use stigma (public attitudes) 1.15 1.00, 1.31 0.048
Opioid use stigma (personalized stigma) 1.08 1.00, 1.18 0.049
Attitudes towards methadone maintenance treatment (MMT)
 Low 1.00 1.00
 Moderate 4.34 1.84, 10.21 <0.001 7.82 2.87, 21.29 <0.001
 High 11.25 4.06, 31.17 <0.001 19.82 6.07, 64.74 <0.001
*

Unadjusted odds ratio (OR) for variables in Table 1 significant at p < 0.10.

Final model includes all variables significant at p < 0.05 (N = 186).