Skip to main content

Table 5 Health care utilization versus ongoing illicit drug use during OMT. Number of patients with reduced, unchanged or increased rates of all, substance-related and injection-related somatic disease incidents respectively, in 22 patients with and 9 patients without problematic* illicit drug use during OMT

From: Somatic health among heroin addicts before and during opioid maintenance treatment: a retrospective cohort study

Diagnose group

Change in incidents during versus before OMT, number of patients

Illicit drug use

Reduction

Unchanged

Increase

Total

P value**

All incidents

    

0.007

Abstinence or non-problematic

18

1***

3

22

 

Problematic

3

0

6

9

 

All substance-related incidents

    

0.063

Abstinence or non-problematic

18

3****

1

22

 

Problematic

6

0

3

9

 

Injection-related incidents

    

0.503

Abstinence or non-problematic

15

6***

1

22

 

Problematic

6

2***

1

9

 
  1. * Definition of problematic drug use, see text
  2. **Chi-square Fisher's exact test: number of patients with increased versus reduced/unchanged rates of all, substance-related and injection-related incidents respectively, versus illicit drug use during OMT
  3. *** Patients had zero episodes during both time periods
  4. ****Two of the three patients had zero episodes