{"id":2668,"date":"2015-02-25T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2015-02-25T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:42:03","slug":"prescription-opioid-analgesic-use-among-adults-united-states-1999-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/02\/25\/2668\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescription Opioid Analgesic Use Among Adults: United States, 1999\u20132012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/dataBriefs\/db189.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/dataBriefs\/db189_fig1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prescription opioid analgesics are used to treat pain from surgery, injury, and health conditions such as cancer. Opioid dependence and opioid-related deaths are growing public health problems. Opioid analgesic sales (in kilograms per 10,000) quadrupled from 1999 to 2010, and from 1999 to 2012, opioid-related deaths (per 100,000) more than tripled. During 1999\u20132002, 4.2% of persons aged 18 and over used a prescription opioid analgesic in the past 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>A new NCHS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/dataBriefs\/db189.pdf\">report<\/a> provides updated estimates and trends in prescription opioid analgesic use among adults aged 20 and over, overall and by selected subgroups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings from the Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From 1999\u20132002 to 2003\u20132006, the percentage of adults aged 20 and over who used a prescription opioid analgesic in the past 30 days increased from 5.0% to 6.9%. From 2003\u20132006 to 2011\u20132012, the percentage who used an opioid analgesic remained stable at 6.9%.<\/li>\n<li>From 1999\u20132002 to 2011\u20132012, the percentage of opioid analgesic users who used an opioid analgesic stronger than morphine increased from 17.0% to 37.0%.<\/li>\n<li>During 2007\u20132012, the use of opioid analgesics was higher among women (7.2%) than men (6.3%).<\/li>\n<li>During 2007\u20132012, the use of opioid analgesics was higher among non-Hispanic white adults (7.5%) compared with Hispanic adults (4.9%). There was no significant difference in use between non-Hispanic white adults and non-Hispanic black adults (6.5%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prescription opioid analgesics are used to treat pain from surgery, injury, and health conditions such as cancer. Opioid dependence and opioid-related deaths are growing public health problems. Opioid analgesic sales (in kilograms per 10,000) quadrupled from 1999 to 2010, and from 1999 to 2012, opioid-related deaths (per 100,000) more than tripled. During 1999\u20132002, 4.2% of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50899,59549],"tags":[64245,64246,64247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}