Table 3 Characteristics of people who injected drugs and used an SSP at least once in the prior 30 days enrolled in the Rural Opioid Initiative (n = 977)
Characteristics | Frequency of SSP use in prior 30Â days | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | Once | Twice | Three times | Four or more times | |
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Â | 977 (100.0) | 233 (23.8) | 215 (22.0) | 140 (14.3) | 389 (39.8) |
Experienced houselesssnessa | 582 (59.6) | 146 (62.7) | 133 (61.9) | 97 (69.3) | 206 (53.0) |
Gender | |||||
Man | 552 (56.5) | 133 (57.1) | 122 (56.7) | 73 (52.1) | 224 (57.6) |
Woman | 420 (43.0) | 99 (42.5) | 92 (42.8) | 64 (45.7) | 165 (42.4) |
Other | 5 (0.5) | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.5) | 3 (2.1) | 0 (0.0) |
Age (years; mean [sd]) | 35 (9) | 36 (9) | 35 (9) | 33 (9) | 35 (9) |
Race | |||||
White | 813 (83.2) | 198 (85.0) | 188 (87.4) | 116 (82.9) | 322 (79.9) |
Black | 17 (1.7) | 2 (0.9) | 4 (1.9) | 0 (0.0) | 12 (3.0) |
Native American | 105 (10.7) | 19 (8.2) | 15 (7.0) | 16 (11.4) | 56 (13.9) |
Other | 42 (4.3) | 14 (6.0) | 8 (3.7) | 8 (5.7) | 13 (3.2) |
Ethnicity | |||||
Hispanic | 31 (3.2) | 8 (3.4) | 4 (1.9) | 3 (2.1) | 16 (4.1) |
Graduated high school | 793 (81.2) | 194 (83.3) | 187 (87.0) | 116 (82.9) | 296 (76.1) |
Received SNAPb, | 524 (53.6) | 127 (54.5) | 112 (54.4) | 71 (50.7) | 209 (53.7) |
Received food from food pantryb | 492 (50.4) | 114 (48.9) | 112 (52.1) | 72 (51.4) | 194 (49.9) |
Drug useb | |||||
Methamphetamine/crystal | 829 (84.9) | 205 (88.0) | 179 (83.3) | 122 (87.1) | 333 (83.2) |
Heroin | 742 (75.9) | 137 (58.8) | 160 (74.4) | 112 (80.0) | 342 (85.7) |
Street fentanyl | 387 (39.6) | 64 (27.5) | 70 (32.6) | 55 (39.3) | 200 (50.0) |
Opiate painkillers | 509 (52.1) | 96 (41.2) | 90 (41.9) | 79 (56.4) | 249 (63.0) |
Proximity to SSP | |||||
Walking distance | 470 (48.1) | 84 (36.1) | 100 (47.5) | 73 (52.1) | 213 (54.8) |
 < 30-min drive | 412 (42.2) | 113 (48.5) | 95 (44.2) | 58 (41.4) | 146 (37.5) |
 > 30-min drive | 78 (8.0) | 30 (12.9) | 17 (7.9) | 8 (5.7) | 23 (5.9) |
No program reasonably close | 12 (1.2) | 6 (2.6) | 1 (0.5) | 1 (0.7) | 4 (1.0) |
Don’t know how close an SSP is | 5 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (0.8) |