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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neuroimmune Pharmacol. 2018 Aug 9;13(4):488–497. doi: 10.1007/s11481-018-9801-x

Table 2.

Health and social functioning by the long-term opioid abstinence group at the end of follow-up (n=609)

Abstinence from heroin Abstinence from heroin and other
opioids
Total
Yes
(n=212)
No (n=397) Yes (n=132) No (n=477) (n=609)
Addiction
Severity Index
composite score,
Mean (SD)
 Alcohol 0.06 (0.11) 0.06 (0.14) 0.04 (0.08) 0.07 (0.14) 0.06 (0.13)
 Drug 0.10 (0.1) 0.18 (0.14)** 0.09 (0.09) 0.17 (0.14)* 0.15 (0.13)
 Employment 0.52 (0.34) 0.65 (0.33)** 0.49 (0.33) 0.64 (0.34)** 0.60 (0.34)
 Social/Family 0.07 (0.14) 0.11 (0.18)** 0.06 (0.14) 0.11 (0.17)** 0.10 (0.17)
 Legal 0.02 (0.07) 0.09 (0.17)** 0.01 (0.05) 0.08 (0.16)** 0.06 (0.15)
 Medical 0.26 (0.35) 0.31 (0.36) 0.19 (0.30) 0.32 (0.36)** 0.30 (0.35)
 Psychiatric 0.15 (0.20) 0.21 (0.23)** 0.14 (0.19) 0.21 (0.23)** 0.19 (0.22)

Note. Abstinence from heroin: no heroin use during five years prior to the participants’ last self-reported record from the TLFB; Abstinence from heroin and other opioids: no heroin and other opioids use during the 5 years prior to the participants’ last self-reported record from the TLFB.

*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01.