Table 2 Socio-demographic and drug use characteristics associated with attitudes and self-reported exposures to IMF-contaminated methamphetamine (IMF/meth) in a community-recruited sample of persons who use methamphetamine (N = 91)
Variables | Viewed NPF/meth as common n (%) or mean (SD) | Self-reported exposure to NPF/meth n (%) or mean (SD) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes N = 65 | No N = 26 | ANOVA or Chi-Squared, p value | Yes N = 54 | No N = 37 | ANOVA or Chi-Squared, p value | |
Age | 42.14 (11.1) | 43.00 (9.7) | 0.439^ | 42.7 (9.4) | 42.0 (12.3) | 0.747 |
Females | 38 (58.5%) | 10 (38.5%) | 0.840 | 30 (55.6%) | 18 (48.6%) | 0.517 |
Ever homeless | 62 (95.4%) | 21 (80.8%) | 0.040# | 53 (98.1%) | 30 (81.1%) | 0.007# |
Unemployed | 49 (75.4%) | 18 (69.2%) | 0.547 | 43 (79.6%) | 24 (64.9%) | 0.116 |
Days of meth use, past 30 days | 19.0 (9.2) | 17.8 (9.1) | 0.573^ | 19.8 (9.4) | 17.0 (8.6) | 0.174^ |
Injection as primary admin of meth, past 30 days | 29 (44.6%) | 10 (38.5%) | 0.592 | 25 (46.3%) | 14 (37.8%) | 0.423 |
Days of heroin use, past 30 days | 10.9 (12.8) | 6.8 (11.4) | 0.285^ | 8.5 (11.3) | 11.5 (14.0) | 0.576^ |
Days of IMF use, past 30 days | 13.4 (13.1) | 10.1 (13.4) | 0.224^ | 11.5 (12.5) | 13.8 (14.3) | 0.703^ |
Days of powder cocaine use, past 30 days | 2.2 (4.9) | 3.6 (8.3) | 0.900^ | 2.6 (6.2) | 2.6 (6.0) | 0.733^ |
Days of crack cocaine use, past 30 days | 2.5 (5.8) | 4.3 (8.6) | 0.739^ | 3.2 (6.9) | 2.8 (6.6) | 0.244^ |
Ever experienced an overdose | 54 (83.1%) | 16 (61.5%) | 0.028 | 41 (75.9%) | 29 (78.4%) | 0.785 |
Perceived risk of opioid overdose (0-none to 4-high), past 30 days | 1.9 (1.6) | 1.0 (1.5) | 0.019^ | 1.8 (1.7) | 1.4 (1.5) | 0.305^ |
Ever obtained take-home naloxone | 57 (87.7%) | 19 (73.1%) | 0.090 | 49 (90.7%) | 27 (73.0%) | 0.025 |
Ever used fentanyl testing strips | 13 (20.0%) | 4 (15.4%) | 0.769^ | 9 (16.7%) | 8 (21.6%) | 0.551 |
Views: Meth contamination with IMF is common (sometimes/often) | 46 (85.2%) | 19 (51.4%) | < 0.001 | |||
Ever obtained/used meth contaminated with IMF | 46 (70.8%) | 8 (30.8%) | < 0.001 | |||