Reduce the proportion of people who misused a prescription pain reliever in the past year — SU‑19 Data

Status: Little or no detectable change

Most Recent Data:
3.5 percent (2019)

Target:
3.3 percent

Desired Direction:
Decrease desired

Baseline:
3.6 percent of persons aged 12 years and over reported misuse of a prescription pain reliever in the past 12 months in 2018

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Confidence Interval (CI) not available Standard Error (SE) not available Confidence Interval (CI) and Standard Error (SE) are not available

Population	2018	2019
Total	3.6 CI 3.4 / 3.8 SE 0.104	3.5 CI 3.3 / 3.7 SE 0.105

Data Source: National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), SAMHSA

Persons with nonmedical use of prescription pain relievers in the past year by

#: Standard errors and confidence intervals are not available for this population group.

◊: Unless otherwise noted, data represent "percent, 12+ years"

†: Target is not applicable for this demographic group.

DSU: Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

DNA: Data have not been analyzed.

DNC: Data for specific population not collected.

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