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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 Jul 21;227:108912. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108912

Table 3.

Adjusted relative risk of having naloxone associated with characteristics of people who reported past year injection drug use and opioid use in two studies in urban and rural Oregon

NHBS (urban), 2018 (N = 469) OR-HOPE (rural), 2018/2019 (N = 133)

Characteristic T aRR 95% CI T aRR 95% CI
Age (yrs) Current 1.00 1.00, 1.01 Current 1.01 0.98, 1.03
Race/Ethnicity (global p-value) (0.20) (<0.001)
   Non-Hispanic White REF - REF -
   Non-Hispanic Black 0.62 0.27, 1.45 ** **
   Hispanic, any race 0.79 0.56, 1.10 1.30 0.69, 2.47
   Non-Hispanic multiple races 0.82 0.66, 1.04 0.95 0.22, 4.18
   Non-Hispanic other 0.79 0.46, 1.35 1.44 0.76, 2.72
Sex (global p-value) (0.02) (0.91)
   Male REF - REF -
   Female 1.20 1.05, 1.36 1.03 0.61, 1.75
   Transgender 0.91 0.55, 1.50 - -
Education
   High school degree or less REF - REF -
   Beyond high school 1.08 0.95, 1.24 1.37 0.83, 2.25
Experienced homelessness 12m 0.86 0.74, 0.99 6m 1.10 0.57, 2.15
Arrested/Held 12m 1.03 0.89, 1.19 6m 1.63 0.56, 4.76
Health insurance Current 0.95 0.78, 1.17 Current 1.82 0.51, 6.50
Drug of choice (global p-value) Current (0.11) Current (<0.001)
   Heroin REF - REF -
   Methamphetamine 0.94 0.70, 1.28 0.17 0.06, 0.47
   Cocaine/Crack - - ** **
   Goofball 1.20 1.03, 1.40 NA NA
   Speedball 0.83 0.55, 1.23 NA NA
   Other 1.35 0.70, 2.60 1.58 0.84, 2.98
Injection frequency (global p-value) 12m (0.20) 30d (<0.001)
   >1x/day REF - REF -
     1x/day 1.11 0.84, 1.48 1.26 0.79, 2.01
   >1x/week 0.81 0.55, 1.19 1.62 0.57, 4.59
   <1x/week 0.68 0.44, 1.06 0.84 0.39, 1.77
   Never NA NA ** **
Got sterile needles from an SSP 12m 1.35 0.96, 1.90 30d 2.02 1.03, 3.96
Got sterile needles from a pharmacy 12m 1.09 0.95, 1.25 30d 0.90 0.56, 1.46
Witnessed an overdose 12m 1.03 0.87, 1.23 Ever 1.19 0.54, 2.64
Experienced an overdose 12m 1.11 0.96, 1.28 12m 0.78 0.39, 1.54
Received overdose training Ever 1.63 1.34, 1.97 Ever 0.88 0.50, 1.56

T – reference time frame, SSP – syringe service program, NA – Not applicable because the study did not collect this category

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No participants with this characteristic currently owned naloxone, Bold = p<0.05