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Table 2 Drug use in the past month of NIDUs, FIDUs and current IDUs

From: Differences in sociodemographic, drug use and health characteristics between never, former and current injecting, problematic hard-drug users in the Netherlands

Drug

Total

NIDU

FIDU

IDU

Test statistic P

 

n(%)

n(%)

n(%)

n(%)

 
 

202 (100)

64 (32)

76(38)

62 (31)

 

Methadone

172 (85)

44 (69)

71 (93)

57 (92)

0.000***

Cocaine

149 (74)

45 (70)

53 (70)

51 (82)

0.188

Heroin

138 (68)

40 (63)

41 (54)

57 (92)

0.000***

Cannabis

120 (59)

33 (52)

46 (61)

41 (66)

0.242

Alcohol

116 (57)

36 (56)

36 (47)

44 (71)

0.020*

Non-prescribed tranquilizers

32 (16)

3 (5)

15 (20)

14 (23)

0.011*

Amphetamine

29 (14)

7 (11)

5 (7)

17 (27)

0.002**

  1. *p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001.