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Reasons for consuming SCs
| Motivation for using SCs | Percentage of focus group participants |
|---|---|
| Did not describe their motivations | 4 |
| Drug testing because of community supervision | 5 |
| Drug testing because of work | 1 |
| Going along with what peers were doing | 1 |
| Likes the feeling | 1 |
| Relaxing | 1 |
| Substitute for marijuana | 5 |
| Substitute for pain pills | 1 |
| Substitute for marijuana to encourage partner’s efforts to not smoke marijuana because he was tested for drugs at his workplace | 1 |
