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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019 Aug 30;204:107515. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.06.017

Table 2.

Patients’ experiences and preferences regarding fentanyl (n= 114 unless otherwise noted.)

Responses
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%