From: Fentanyl-contaminated drugs and non-fatal overdose among people who inject drugs in Baltimore, MD
OR | 95% CI | p | aOR | 95% CI | p | |
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“When you inject drugs, how often do you think it is laced with fentanyl?” | ||||||
Never or rarely | REF | – | – | REF | – | – |
Half, most, or all the time | 2.48 | 1.18–5.22 | 0.016 | 2.79 | 1.00–4.68 | 0.021 |
Do not know | 1.38 | 0.52–3.72 | 0.518 | 0.89 | 0.28–2.82 | 0.840 |
Female gender | 1.29 | 0.69–2.40 | 0.421 | 2.16 | 1.00–4.68 | 0.050 |
Race/ethnicity | ||||||
Black, Hispanic, or other | REF | – | – | – | – | – |
Non-Hispanic White | 2.20 | 1.19–3.99 | 0.012 | – | – | – |
Housing status, past 3 months | ||||||
Own/rent | REF | – | – | REF | – | – |
Staying with family or friends or other | 1.28 | 0.56–2.94 | 0.558 | 1.41 | 0.54–3.68 | 0.483 |
Homeless# | 2.94 | 1.45-5.95 | 0.003 | 3.07 | 1.28–7.39 | 0.012 |
Arrested, past 12 months | 1.69 | 0.92–3.11 | 0.092 | – | – | – |
Injected > 3 times per day | 1.73 | 0.91–3.29 | 0.095 | – | – | – |
Injected heroin by itself, past 6 months | 0.41 | 0.14–1.23 | 0.114 | 0.13 | 0.03–0.49 | 0.002 |
Injected speedball, past 6 months | 2.03 | 1.03–3.97 | 0.040 | 2.80 | 1.26–6.23 | 0.012 |
Prescription opioid misuse,*past 6 months | 2.34 | 1.00–5.49 | 0.049 | – | – | – |
Benzodiazepine misuse,*past 6 months | 1.81 | 0.97–3.40 | 0.064 | – | – | – |
Buprenorphine/Suboxone misuse,*past 6 months | 4.39 | 2.27–8.51 | < 0.001 | 6.37 | 2.86–14.17 | < 0.001 |
Main place where drugs injected, past 30 days | ||||||
Private residence (own home, someone else’s home) | REF | – | – | – | – | – |
Public (e.g., abandoned building, street, park, car, shooting gallery) | 2.07 | 1.12–3.82 | 0.021 | – | – | – |
Drug treatment in the past 12 months | ||||||
Inpatient hospital | 3.58 | 1.30–9.91 | 0.014 | – | – | – |
Inpatient rehab | 2.40 | 0.86–6.72 | 0.095 | – | – | – |
Outpatient treatment | 0.61 | 0.32–1.19 | 0.148 | – | – | – |