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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2020 Aug 8;216:108227. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108227

Table 1.

Characteristics of adult primary care patients who completed a screen about past-year cannabis or other drug use, by frequency of use

Screened for cannabis use
Screened for other drug use
Overall By frequency of past-year use
p Overall By frequency of past-year use
p
(N=45,647) Never (N=39,827) Less than Monthly (N=2,902) Monthly (N=886) Weekly (N=901) Daily or almost daily (N=1,131) (N=45,255) Never (N=44,726) Less than Monthly (N=381) Monthly (N=49) Weekly (N=35) Daily or almost daily (N=69)

Column % Column %

Female 59.6 60.9 55.8 48.4 42.4 46.6 <0.001 59.6 59.7 50.9 36.7 48.6 43.8 <0.001
Age
 18–29 years 7.6 5.6 19.5 21.7 22.5 24.5 <0.001 7.5 7.2 36.0 34.7 37.1 50.0 <0.001
 30–49 years 19.4 18.4 27.3 26.4 19.3 26.9 19.4 19.3 23.9 16.3 14.3 10.9
 50–64 years 27.2 26.9 29.4 30.5 32.0 27.7 27.3 27.3 18.6 18.4 14.3 20.3
 ≥65 years 45.9 49.2 23.8 21.4 26.2 21.0 45.9 46.1 21.5 30.6 34.3 18.8
Race
 American Indian or Alaska Native 0.7 0.7 0.9 0.5 1.2 0.8 <0.001 0.7 0.7 1.1 0.0 0.0 1.6 0.004
 Asian 7.6 8.4 3.1 2.0 1.7 1.7 7.6 7.7 5.0 0.0 0.0 4.7
 Black 2.7 2.7 3.4 3.4 2.4 3.7 2.7 2.7 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
 Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.0 2.9 1.6
 Multiracial 2.6 2.3 4.0 4.1 5.3 4.6 2.6 2.6 4.5 8.2 5.7 4.7
 Other 2.3 2.4 2.0 2.3 1.4 2.2 2.3 2.3 3.4 0.0 0.0 1.6
 White 80.9 80.5 83.6 84.0 84.6 82.7 80.9 80.9 76.9 89.8 91.4 85.9
 Unknown 2.6 2.5 2.5 3.2 2.8 3.6 2.6 2.6 3.7 2.0 0.0 0.0
Hispanic or Latino Ethnicity 4.7 4.7 4.9 4.4 3.8 4.8 0.432 4.7 4.7 5.5 4.1 0.0 1.6 0.384
Diagnoses in prior year
 Tobacco use disorder 3.6 3.2 4.8 6.4 7.7 8.0 <0.001 3.6 3.5 5.0 4.1 17.1 14.1 <0.001
 Alcohol use disorder 1.6 1.4 2.2 3.1 3.6 4.2 <0.001 1.6 1.5 3.2 2.0 5.7 9.4 <0.001
 Cannabis use disorder 0.4 0.3 0.7 0.5 0.8 1.5 <0.001 0.4 0.3 0.8 8.2 8.6 25.0 <0.001
 Opioid use disorder 0.5 0.4 0.9 0.8 1.0 1.7 <0.001 0.5 0.4 1.1 8.2 8.6 25.0 <0.001
 Other drug use disorder 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.4 0.013 0.1 0.1 1.1 2.0 5.7 1.6 <0.001`
 Major depression 15.2 14.5 19.0 20.9 18.9 23.6 <0.001 15.2 15.1 18.1 26.5 37.1 28.1 <0.001
 Anxiety 10.2 9.5 14.0 16.6 15.8 17.2 <0.001 10.2 10.2 14.4 16.3 14.3 17.2 0.009
 Serious mental illness 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.135 0.1 0.01 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.118
 Resource Utilization Band (5 categories)
   ≤ 1 4.1 3.8 7.0 5.9 5.6 4.8 <0.001 4.1 4.1 6.3 6.5 0.0 3.3 <0.001
   2 10.6 10.2 14.6 13.6 13.3 11.2 10.6 10.6 15.8 10.9 2.9 4.9
   3 56.7 56.4 58.2 60.6 57.9 59.4 56.7 56.7 59.0 54.4 64.7 52.5
   4 19.0 19.6 14.4 14.7 15.8 16.9 19.1 19.1 12.8 26.1 14.7 32.8
   5 9.5 10.0 5.9 5.3 7.4 7.7 9.5 9.5 6.3 2.2 17.7 6.6

Fisher’s exact used to calculate p-values due to small numbers; all other p-values are calculated with chi-squared test of independence