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Characteristics, n %
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n = 60
|
n = 23
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Age, median (IQR)
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38 (34, 44)
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39 (34, 45)
|
|
Male sex
|
60 (100%)
|
23 (100%)
|
|
Drug-related sentences
|
38 (73.1%)
|
13 (61.9%)
|
|
History of incarceration
|
19 (63.3%)
|
7 (53.8%)
|
|
Mean incarceration days† (SD)
|
92 (147)
|
114 (158)
|
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Sexual orientation
| | |
|
Heterosexual
|
53 (91.4%)
|
20 (95.2%)
|
|
Homo/bisexual
|
5 (8.6%)
|
1 (4.8%)
|
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Education
| | |
|
Did not finish high school
|
49 (81.7%)
|
16 (69.6%)
|
|
Finished high school
|
10 (16.7%)
|
7 (30.4%)
|
|
Higher education
|
1 (1.7%)
|
0 (0.0%)
|
|
Employment
| | |
|
Unemployed
|
38 (63.3%)
|
8 (44.4%)
|
|
Part-time
|
13 (21.7%)
|
6 (33.3%)
|
|
Full-time
|
9 (15.0%)
|
4 (22.2%)
|
|
Monthly income
| | |
|
Minimum wage or below
|
39 (65.0%)
|
14 (60.9%)
|
|
Living wage
|
10 (16.7%)
|
5 (21.7%)
|
|
Above living wage
|
11 (18.3%)
|
4 (17.4%)
|
|
Place of residence
| | |
|
Own house
|
4 (8.9%)
|
2 (10.5%)
|
|
Rental/Parents house
|
30 (66.7%)
|
13 (68.4%)
|
|
Homeless
|
11 (24.4%)
|
4 (21.1%)
|
|
Number of housings within 6 months
| | |
|
One
|
43 (72.9%)
|
16 (72.7%)
|
|
Two or more
|
15 (25.4%)
|
6 (27.3%)
|
|
Lived with PWID‡ within 6 months
| | |
|
Never
|
23 (40.4%)
|
10 (45.5%)
|
|
Less than half the time
|
4 (7.0%)
|
0 (0.0%)
|
|
Half the time or more
|
30 (52.6%)
|
12 (54.6%)
|
|
Number of friends with drug use
| | |
|
None
|
10 (18.2%)
|
3 (14.3%)
|
|
Less than half
|
8 (14.6%)
|
4 (19.1%)
|
|
Half or more
|
37 (67.3%)
|
14 (66.7%)
|
|
Feeling of anxiety or depression
|
46 (79.3%)
|
16 (72.7%)
|
|
Sense of well-being§, mean (SD)
|
63 (19)
|
68 (21)
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