Table 2.

Characteristics of White and Black Medicaid beneficiaries aged 18–64 with a diagnosis of CNCP, by a filled opioid prescription.

	Any opioid prescription filled (%) (N=48,122)		No opioid prescription filled (%) (N=27,336)		Total (%) (N=75,458)
	Black	White	Black	White	Black	White
Total	30.89	69.11	41.68	58.32	34.80	65.20
Sex
Male	25.50	31.06	29.61	33.98	27.28	32.00
Female	74.50	68.94	70.39	66.02	72.72	68.00
Age
18–30	24.44	26.98	27.16	22.68	25.62	25.59
31–40	23.38	26.69	19.40	19.29	21.66	24.29
41–50	24.52	24.13	22.60	25.72	23.56	24.65
51–64	27.66	22.19	31.14	32.31	29.17	25.47
Diagnosis*
Chronic pain syndrome	37.86	46.71	24.80	33.72	32.19	42.50
Headache	7.54	7.80	8.88	7.71	8.12	7.77
Back pain	50.09	56.99	42.48	47.86	46.79	54.03
Neck pain	26.83	24.40	24.44	21.36	25.79	23.42
Spinal cord injury	1.51	1.15	3.86	3.80	2.53	2.01
Arthritic diseases	5.11	1.68	7.08	2.78	5.97	2.04
Sickle cell anemia	4.14	0.04	4.00	0.06	4.08	0.05
Burns	0.20	0.14	0.23	0.20	0.21	0.16

^*Note that because beneficiaries may be given multiple pain-related diagnoses, the total exceeds 100%.