One in ten seniors, 6 percent of adults use opioid painkillers in U.S.

Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 00:11 in Health & Medicine

The CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that roughly 6 percent of people over 20 in the U.S. use prescription opioids, that use increases with age and that women use opioids more than men.

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