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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2014 Aug 8;41(1):100–106. doi: 10.3109/00952990.2014.940424

Table 1.

Prescription opioid misuse, abuse & dependence: RDS populations estimates with bootstrap percentile based confidence intervals (N = 570)

Sample
prev.
Pop. Est. 95% Conf. Int.
Misuse, past year 0.32 0.22 0.18 0.28
Misuse, prior 0.47 0.33 0.26 0.40
Misuse, lifetime 0.51 0.36 0.29 0.42
Chronic intoxication, ever a 0.28 0.20 0.15 0.25
Binge use, ever b 0.28 0.19 0.15 0.25
Any problem use, ever 0.33 0.24 0.18 0.31
PO before heroin problem use 0.20 0.14 0.09 0.19
Abuse, lifetime (no dependence) 0.08 0.04 0.02 0.07
Abuse, lifetime 0.27 0.19 0.14 0.24
Abuse, past year c 0.17 0.11 0.08 0.16
Abuse, prior 0.26 0.18 0.14 0.24
Dependence, lifetime c 0.22 0.17 0.12 0.22
Dependence, past year 0.16 0.11 0.08 0.15
Dependence, prior 0.21 0.16 0.12 0.21
a

used at least 4 days per week for a month

b

used most of the day for three days straight

c

female > male, p < .05