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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2018 Oct 11;193:21–28. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.08.023

Table 2.

Clinical and demographic characteristics

 Total Sample Participants who smoked
 All  Men  Women
N  182 [135 (74.2%)
 men]
 161  117 (72.7%)  44 (27.3%)
Opioid agonist medication
 Methadone  107 (58.8%)  96 (59.6%)  70 (59.8%)  26 (59.1%)
 Buprenorphine/naloxone  75 (41.2%)  65 (40.4%)  47 (40.2%)  18 (40.9%)
Race n (%)
 African American  118 (64.8%)  103
 (64.0%)
 73 (62.4%)  30 (68.2%)
 White  60 (33.0%)  54 (33.5%)  40 (34.2%)  14 (31.8%)
Marital Status n (%)
 Married  24 (13.2%)  21 (13.0%)  17 (14.5%)  4 (9.1%)
 Never married  111 (61.0%)  100
 (62.1%)
 73 (62.4%)  27 (61.4%)
 Separated/divorced/widowed  47 (25.8%)  40 (24.8%)  27 (23.1%)  15 (29.5%)
Employment Status n (%)
 Full Time  84 (46.2%)  73 (45.3%)  58 (49.6%)  15(34.1%)
 Part Time  42 (23.1%)  39 (24.2%)  29 (24.8%)  10 (22.7%)
 Unemployed  46 (25.3%)  40 (24.8%)  24 (20.5%)  16 (36.4%)
 Retired/disability/controlled  10 (5.5%)  9 (5.6%)  6 (5.1%)  3 (6.8%)
Age
 Years mean (SD)  42.3 (9.5)  42.4 (9.8)  42.6 (10.0)  41.8 (9.2)
Education
 Years mean (SD)  12.1 (1.5)  12.1(1.6)  12.0 (1.5)  12.3 (1.6)
Days used in last 30
 Heroin mean (SD)  19.3 (11.9)  20.0 (11.5)  20.5 (11.1)  18.8 (12.5)
 Other Opioid mean (SD)  8.1 (10.3)  7.5 (9.8)  7.1 (9.6)  8.4 (10.1)
 Cocaine mean (SD)  4.5 (8.5)  4.9 (8.9)  4.9 (9.3)  4.9 (7.8)
Years Using
 Heroin mean (SD)  14.5 (10.2)  14.5 (10.0)  16.0 (10.0)  10.7 (9.3)*
 Other Opioid mean (SD)  1.5 (2.7)  1.4 (2.4)  1.1 (1.9)  2.1 (3.3)
 Cocaine mean (SD)  6.0 (8.1)  6.2 (8.1)  6.4 (8.5)  5.7 (7.0)
*

Significantly different for men vs. women (two-sample t-test t=−3.13, df=82.8, p=0.0024); sex comparisons on other variables in this table did not reach statistical significance (p<0.05).