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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

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

Status: Little or no detectable change

  Little or no detectable change
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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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Persons with nonmedical use of prescription pain relievers in the past year, 2018-2019 ◊
(percent)
Decrease desired

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