Prior criminal charges and outcomes among individuals initiating office-based buprenorphine treatment

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Table 2 Relationship between prior criminal charges, treatment retention and drug treatment outcomes

Prior charges	In treatment at 12	Mean number of opioid-	≥6 opioid-negative months
	months (%)	negative months	(%)
None	27 (52.0%)	6.68	30 (60.0%)
(n = 50)
Any charges	112 (55.4%)	5.12	87 (43.1%)
(n = 202)	p = 0.854^a	p = 0.028^a	p = 0.032^a
1-6 cases	57 (54.3%)	5.36	47 (44.8%)
(n = 105 )	p = 0.973^a	p = 0.103^a	p = 0.076^a
≥7 cases	55 (56.7%)	4.87	40 (41.2%)
(n = 97)	p = 0.755^a	p = 0.015^a	p = 0.031^a
Recent charges	58 (53.7)	4.50	40 (37.0%)
(n = 108)	p = 0.014^b	p = 0.004^b	p = 0.010^b
Distant charges	62 (66.0%)	5.84	47 (50.0%)
(n = 94)	p =0.160^a/0.005^c	p = 0.252^a/0.031^c	p = 0.252^a/0.063^c

“Recent charges” are those that occurred in the 2 years prior to treatment initiation, “distant charges” occurred more than 2 years prior to treatment iniation.
^ap value for difference with subjects with no prior charges.
^bp value for difference with subjects with no recent charges.
^cp value for difference with subjects with recent charges.

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