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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Addict Res Theory. 2018 Jan 31;26(5):421–429. doi: 10.1080/16066359.2018.1434513

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Sociodemographic variables Mean (SD) or
percentage
Gender
  Male  74.2%
  Female  25.8%
Ethnicity
  Caucasian  50.9%
  African-American  45.4%
  Hispanic, Asian, or multiethnic 3.7%
Age (years) 42.1 (11.1)
Education 12.2 ( 1.6)
Heroin use characteristics
  Age of initial heroin use (years) 25.4 ( 8.3)
  Age of regular heroin use (years) 26.9 ( 8.6)
  Lifetime duration of regular heroin use (years) 14.9 (11.1)
  Past-month heroin use (days) 28.1 ( 4.9)
  Lifetime attempts to quit heroin use 9.8 (19.5)
  Lifetime injection use (% yes) 67.5%
  Lifetime heroin-use consequences 7.8 ( 4.4)
Study variables
  BIS-11 Attentional impulsivity 15.6 ( 3.3)
  BIS-11 Motor impulsivity 23.8 ( 4.0)
  BIS-11 Non-planning impulsivity 28.8 ( 4.9)
  BDI-II depression 15.3 (10.2)
  DASS Stress 5.1 ( 4.0)
  Perception of life events 18.1 (34.9)