Almost 10 million U.S. adults report misusing prescription opioids in 2012-2013
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–June 23, 2016. Nonmedical use of prescription opioids more than doubled among adults in the United States from 2001-2002 to 2012-2013, based on a study from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. Nearly 10 million Americans, or 4.1 percent of the adult population, used opioid medications in 2012-2013 a class of drugs that…
