AHRQ Stats: Variations in Opioid Use According to Health Status

While fewer than 9 percent of elderly Americans in excellent health filled any outpatient opioid prescriptions in 2015-2016, nearly 40 percent of those in poor health did. (Source: AHRQ, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Statistical Brief #515: Any Use and Frequent Use of Opioids among Elderly Adults in 2015-2016, by Socioeconomic Characteristics.)