Table 1.
Characteristics of Those Off Opioids and Those Who Continued Opioids
| Off opioids (n=32) |
Continued opioid users (n=29) |
p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | %a | n | %a | ||
| Age, mean±SD | 48.2±12.3 | 52.3±10.1 | 0.15 | ||
| Gender, female | 9 | 27.3 | 14 | 50.0 | 0.11 |
| Race, white | 27 | 84.4 | 24 | 85.7 | >0.99 |
| Education, years, mean±SD | 13.9±2.9 | 13.5±2.1 | 0.54 | ||
| Military service | 5 | 15.6 | 4 | 14.8 | >0.99 |
| Religion, Christian | 11 | 52.4 | 12 | 52.2 | >0.99 |
| Employed | 23 | 79.3 | 19 | 76.0 | >0.99 |
| Insurance, private | 23 | 76.7 | 19 | 74.1 | >0.99 |
| Smokers | 15 | 46.9 | 12 | 42.9 | 0.80 |
| Alcohol usage | 13 | 27.5 | 8 | 40.6 | 0.42 |
| History of substance use | 5 | 17.9 | 4 | 22.2 | 0.72 |
| Type user chronic | 12 | 37.5 | 16 | 55.2 | 0.44 |
| Years of chronic pain, median (IQR) | 12 (7–20) | 10 (4–19) | 0.38 | ||
| Years on opioids, median (IQR) | 6.0 (1–10) | 3 (1.3–5) | 0.46 | ||
| Cannabis amount used, g/day, median (IQR) | 1.4 (0.64–1.89) | 0.64 (0.25–0.98) | 0.019 | ||
| Attitude if cannabis lowers opioid use | 14 | 40.0 | 15 | 51.7 | 0.65 |
| Morphine equivalents, mg/day median (IQR) | 18 (12–36) | 27 (15–95) | 0.45 | ||
a
Percentages may not total 100% because of missing data.
IQR, interquartile range; SD, standard deviation.