Table 1 Study population socio-demographics and overdose experience
Variable | N (%) | Mean (SD) |
|---|---|---|
Site | ||
State Narcological Hospital | 30 (50) | |
Biomedical Center | 30 (50) | |
Age in years [mean (SD)] | 30.8 (7.5) | |
Male | 37 (61.7) | |
Age at first opioid use [mean (SD)] | 20.3 (5.8) | |
Years from first opioid use to first opioid overdose [mean (SD)] | 4.5 (6.0) | |
Living situation | ||
Alone | 13 (21.7) | |
Parents | 26 (43.3) | |
Spouse | 13 (21.7) | |
Sex partner | 2 (3.3) | |
Relatives | 5 (8.3) | |
With friends | 1 (1.7) | |
Highest level of education | ||
Did not complete middle school | 11 (18.3) | |
Completed middle school | 16 (26.7) | |
Special middle (PTU/tech school) | 18 (30.0) | |
Institute//university | 15 (25.0) | |
Currently employed | 16 (26.7) | |
District of inhabitance | ||
Central | 12 (20.3) | |
South | 15 (25.4) | |
North | 17 (28.8) | |
East | 11 (18.6) | |
Suburbs | 6 (6.8) | |
Addiction Severity Index | ||
Legal composite | 0.13 (0.17) | |
Family composite | 0.38 (0.21) | |
Psychiatric composite | 0.39 (0.24) | |
Drug composite | 0.14 (0.10) | |
Employment composite | 0.75 (0.26) | |
Medical, items: | ||
Days bothered by medical problems* | 10.53 (10.35) | |
How troubled by medical problems** | 2.13 (1.29) | |
Alcohol, items: | ||
Days used alcohol* | 4.61 (7.71) | |
Days used alcohol to intoxication* | 1.71 (3.48) | |
Days experiencing problems with alcohol* | 3.10 (7.22) | |
How troubled by alcohol problems** | 0.77 (1.17) | |
Importance of getting treatment for alcohol problems** | 0.97 (1.46) | |
SCL-90 Mean score (SD) | ||
Global Severity Index | 1.24 (0.69) | |
Obsessive-compulsive | 1.79 (1.09) | |
Interpersonal sensitivity | 1.45 (0.87) | |
Depression | 1.25 (0.94) | |
Anxiety | 1.35 (0.95) | |
Hostility | 1.39 (0.94) | |
Phobic anxiety | 0.82 (0.85) | |
Paranoid ideation | 1.13 (0.88) | |
Psychoticism | 0.70 (0.76) | |
Somatization | 1.31 (0.82) | |
Ever injected | 59 (98.3) | |
Past 30 days, injected | 29 (49.2) | |
Heroin | 29 (100) | |
Opioids | 4 (13.8) | |
Amphetamines | 2 (6.9) | |
Other | 3 (10.3) | |
Inject alone all or most of the time | 17 (29.3) |