Offending, custody and opioid substitution therapy treatment utilisation among opioid-dependent people in contact with the criminal justice system: comparison of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians

Table 3 Profile of custody episodes ¹ for 17,967 opioid-dependent people according to Indigenous status, January 2000 – March 2012

	Males (N = 14,012)					Females (N = 3,746)
	Indigenous		Non-Indigenous			Indigenous		Non-Indigenous
	(N = 3,854)		(N = 10,158)			(N = 1,449)		(N = 2,297)
	Median	IQR Min-Max	Median	IQR Min-Max	P	Median	IQR Min-Max	Median	IQR Min-Max	P
Number of custody episodes	5	6	3	4	<0.001	4	5	2	3	<0.001
Number of custody episodes	5	1-47	3	1-39	<0.001	4	1-35	2	1-26	<0.001
Duration of custody episodes (days)	75	206	68	205	0.004	30	119	22	108	<0.001
Duration of custody episodes (days)	75	1–6,819	68	1–8,348	0.004	30	1–5,201	22	1–5,341	<0.001
Percentage of follow-up time each individual spent in custody	21.7	38.2	10.1	24.0	<0.001	6.0	16.1	2.9	8.8	<0.001
	21.7	0.02-100	10.1	0.02-100	<0.001	6.0	0.02-100	2.9	0.02-100	<0.001

¹Includes incomplete episodes, i.e. days in the follow-up period spent in custody for episodes that had started prior to 2000, and/or which had not ended by March 2012.

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