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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2016 Nov;157(11):2452–2457. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000650

Table 3.

New opioid users who transition to longer-term opioid use

Mood Disorder No Mood Disorder

n Weighted %* n Weighted %* p
For acute pain conditions 72 11.7% 137 5.3% <0.01
 Any fracture 19 13.6% 34 6.1% 0.02
 Tooth and jaw disorders 13 7.6% 18 3.0% 0.03
 Kidney stones <10 <10
 Traumatic injury 16 8.0% 53 6.1% 0.42
 Sprains 21 17.8% 27 5.7% <0.01
For chronic pain conditions 244 36.8% 366 19.9% <0.01
 Back pain 122 41.4% 150 19.2% <0.01
 Chronic joint pain 108 36.2% 176 22.7% <0.01
 Connective tissue disorders 42 26.1% 60 16.0% 0.05
 Headache and migraine 20 27.7% 20 16.6% 0.14
*

Weighted percent of patients who received ≥3 prescriptions for the condition in consecutive survey periods among new opioid users for the given condition