New AHRQ Analysis Focuses on Opioid Use Among Women

Opioid-related hospitalization rates among women in 2016 were highest among whites (428 per 100,000 people), followed by blacks (380 per 100,000) and Hispanics (152 per 100,000), according to a new AHRQ analysis. It also showed that the percentage of opioid-related hospitalizations involving women who were pregnant or giving birth was lowest among blacks (5 percent), followed by whites (8 percent), and Hispanics (9 percent). These findings and others, including data on opioid-related hospitalization rates according to income and location, were drawn from AHRQ’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, the largest source of hospital care data in the United States. Access the AHRQ analysis.