Opioid-Related Inpatient Stays & Emergency Department Visits By State, 2009–2014

On December 15, 2016 the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released this statistical brief on opioid-related inpatient stays and emergency department visits by state between 2009 and 2014. The brief presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) on the national rate of opioid-related hospital inpatient stays and emergency department visits from 2009 to 2014 for more than 40 individual states and the District of Columbia, including events associated with prescription opioids or illicit opioids such as heroin . . .