Table 2.
Patients’ experiences and preferences regarding fentanyl (n= 114 unless otherwise noted.)
Responses | |
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Have you ever knowingly taken fentanyl that was sold on the street? | Yes: 56.1% |
Do you know any people whose drug of choice is fentanyl? | Yes: 65.8% |
Before you came to treatment, what was your preferred opioid of choice? | Heroin alone (40.4%) Rx opioids (11.4%) Multiple, not including fentanyl (3.5%) Fentanyl alone (5.3%) Fentanyl and heroin mix (33.3%) Multiple, including fentanyl (6.1%) Fentanyl (alone or mix): 44.7% |
If someone wanted to get fentanyl on the street, how difficult would it be to get? (n=105) | Very difficult (1.1%) Somewhat difficult (2.9%) Somewhat easy (20.0%) Very easy (76.2%) Somewhat/Very easy: 96.2% |
If someone wanted to get heroin without fentanyl on the street, how difficult would it be to get? | Very difficult (39.1%) Somewhat difficult (31.8%) Somewhat easy (15.5%) Very easy (13.6%) Somewhat/Very easy: 29.1% |
Before you came to treatment, if you had $10 to spend on opioids, what would you be most likely to buy? | Heroin alone (36.0%) Rx opioids (12.3%) Multiple, not including fentanyl (<1%) Fentanyl alone (17.5%) Fentanyl and heroin mix (30.7%) Multiple, including fentanyl (6.1%) Fentanyl (alone or mix): 50.9% |