Table 1.

Demographics of study population (n=121)

	Frequency	Percent
Total	121	100.0
Male gender	108	89.3
Non-hispanic	109	90.1
Age
Less than 30	10	8.3
30 to 49	66	54.5
Over 50	45	37.2
High school education or more	76	62.8
Never married	88	72.7
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual	96	79.3
Bisexual	17	14.1
Other	8	6.6
Incarceration duration under 5 years	98	81.0
Ever treated for drug abuse	104	86.0
Illicit drug use since release	82	67.8
Sex since release	101	83.5
Unprotected sex since release	77	63.6
History of powder cocaine use	80	66.1
Before most recent incarceration	74	92.5*
Since release from prison	31	38.8*
History of rock/crack cocaine use	57	47.1
Before most recent incarceration	56	52.9**
Since release from prison	19	33.3**
History of heroin use	42	34.7
Before most recent incarceration	37	88.1***
Since release from prison	23	54.8***
Used needle to shoot up drugs since release	7	5.8
How soon after release from most recent incarceration did you use drugs? (days)
Did not use	39	32.2
Within 1 day	36	29.8
1 to 7 days	19	15.7
Over 7 days	27	22.3
Type of drug offense
Drug distribution or intent to sell	75	62.0
Drug possession only	46	38.0

^*percentage calculated by dividing the frequency by the number of participants who had ever used powder cocaine

^**percentage calculated by dividing the frequency by the number of participants who had ever used rock/crack cocaine

^***percentage calculated by dividing the frequency by the number of participants who had ever used heroin