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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 8.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 Feb 13;221:108588. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108588

Table 1.

Unadjusted and age- and gender-adjusted prevalence estimates for past-year prescription opioid misuse and heroin use, by race/ethnicity and time period.

1999–2002 2003–2006 2007–2010 2011–2014 2015–2018
Unadj. % Adj. % Unadj. % Adj. % Unadj. % Adj. % Unadj. % Adj. % Unadj. % Adj. %
PRESCRIPTION OPIOIDS
Non-Hispanic White 3.7% 3.8% 5.2% 5.6% 5.3% 5.7% 4.4% 4.8% 4.4% 4.7%
Non-Hispanic Black 2.8% 2.6% 3.5% 3.3% 3.8% 3.6% 4.2% 3.9% 3.8% 3.5%
Hispanic 4.0% 3.4% 4.9% 4.1% 4.4% 3.7% 4.6% 3.8% 4.1% 3.5%
Asian 2.0% 1.8% 2.4% 2.2% 2.8% 2.6% 2.0% 1.8% 1.7% 1.6%
Native American 5.0% 4.6% 7.1% 6.6% 8.1% 7.7% 6.7% 6.3% 5.5% 5.1%
Other race/multiracial 5.5% 5.0% 5.2% 4.8% 6.6% 6.1% 5.6% 5.0% 5.9% 5.3%
HEROIN
Non-Hispanic White 0.16% 0.16% 0.15% 0.16% 0.23% 0.25% 0.33% 0.36% 0.38% 0.41%
Non-Hispanic Black 0.22% 0.21% 0.24% 0.23% 0.20% 0.19% 0.22% 0.21% 0.30% 0.28%
Hispanic 0.23% 0.19% 0.28% 0.23% 0.19% 0.15% 0.21% 0.17% 0.24% 0.21%
Other race/multiracial 0.09% 0.09% 0.09% 0.08% 0.10% 0.09% 0.14% 0.12% 0.16% 0.15%

Note: All estimates are obtained from regression models that account for NSDUH survey design. Prevalence estimates were obtained as predictive margins.