TABLE 1.
Demographic and personal characterization with gender comparison.
| Females, n = 23 | Males, n = 63 | P | |
| Age | 48.0 ± 8.8 | 47.7 ± 9.9 | 0.87 |
| Time diagnosis, in yr | 9.9 ± 8.6 | 7.5 ± 7.3 | 0.24 |
| Education, in yr | 9.9 ± 3.3 | 9.6 ± 4 | 0.78 |
| Civil status | 0.9 | ||
| Single | 18.2% | 18.3% | |
| Married | 50% | 53.3% | |
| Divorced/separated | 27.3% | 26.7% | |
| Widowed | 4.5% | 1.7% | |
| Employment | 0.83 | ||
| Employed | 54.5% | 53.3% | |
| Unemployed | 31.8% | 38.3% | |
| Medical leave | 4.5% | 1.7% | |
| Retired | 9.1% | 6.7% | |
| Psychiatric antecedents | 27.3% | 11.7% | 0.08 |
| Substance dependence | 50% | 89.5% | 0.001a |
| Psychoactive substances | 0.40 | ||
| Heroin | 36.4% | 43.4% | |
| Cocaine | 9.1% | 22.6% | |
| Heroin + Cocaine | 18.2% | 5.7% | |
| Marijuana | 36.4% | 28.3% | |
| Years of substance dependence | 17.0 ± 9.1 | 17.2 ± 10.7 | 0.97 |
| Alcohol | 0.41 | ||
| No | 86.4% | 78.3% | |
| <10 g/day | 13.6% | 20% | |
| ≥10 g/day | 4.5% | 3.3% | |
| Smoking | 0.55 | ||
| No | 45.5% | 33.3% | |
| <10 cigarettes/day | 31.8% | 43.3% | |
| ≥10 cigarettes/day | 22.7% | 23.3% |
aP < 0.01.