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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2020 Oct 26;217:108382. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108382

Table 1.

Estimated Cases of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths by NSUDH Age Category, 2018

Persons with OUDa Opioid Overdose Deathsb
Age Unadjusted Adjusted Unadjusted Adjusted
12 5,978 18,293 2 2
13 8,824 27,001 4 5
14 8,026 24,560 12 15
15 30,197 92,403 16 19
16 35,007 107,121 27 33
17 22,417 68,596 82 99
18 31,386 96,041 154 186
19 27,919 85,432 233 282
20 48,911 149,668 375 454
21 32,212 98,569 488 590
22/23 86,021 263,224 1,344 1,626
24/25 77,314 236,581 1,900 2,299
26–29 212,021 648,784 5,144 6,224
30–34 268,159 820,567 6,694 8,100
35–49 527,936 1,615,484 16,240 19,650
50–64 492,529 1,507,139 12,017 14,541
65+ 129,610 396,607 2,012 2,435
Total 2,044,467 6,256,069 46,744 56,560
a

Estimated number of persons with OUD, derived from NSDUH (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2019). Adjusted based on findings from Jordan et al. (2008); see text for details.

b

Unadjusted opioid overdose deaths obt ained from CDC WONDER (2020); adjusted according to Ruhm’s(2017) finding that opioid overdose deaths were 21% higher than reported in 2015