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Table 3 IV users and needle sharing

From: Smoking heroin with cannabis versus injecting heroin: unexpected impact on treatment outcomes

Characteristic

Baseline (n = 89) (%)

3 months (n = 28) (%)

p value (BL vs 3 m)

9 months (n = 38) (%)

p value (3 m vs 9 m)

Proportion of IV users in total sample

(89/300) 29.7

(28/252) 11.1

< 0.0001

(38/225) 16.9

0.01

No. sharing needles

72 (80.9)

23 (82.0)

0.89

34 (89.0)

0.42