Opioid-Related Hospital Stays Among Women In The United States, 2016

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project released this statistical brief on January 17, 2019, on opioid-related hospital stays among women in the United States in 2016. Some of the findings included:

The rate of opioid-related stays among women in 2016 was 374.8 per 100,000 population. The rate increased with women’s age, decreased with community-level income, and was highest for White women,
followed by Black women.
Most opioid-related stays among women aged 15–44 years involved abuse/dependence (86%). Nearly half of opioid stays among women aged 65 years and older were due to . . .