U.S. adults who took prescribed opioids by age group 2017

This statistic shows the results of a survey conducted in the United States in February 2017. U.S. adults who had taken opioids in the last two years were asked if the opioids they took were prescribed or not, by age group. Almost a 100 percent of respondents aged 60 and above stated that the opioids they had consumed in the last two years were prescribed .