Prevention National Institute on Drug Abuse NIDA
Among individuals prescribed opioids long term for chronic pain, between 8 percent and 12 percent will develop an addiction to opioids, although nuance exists in the reported estimates (Dowell, Haegerich, and Chou, 2016; Volkow and McLellan, 2016; Vowles et al., 2015). Individuals can move in and out of the “diagnosed” and “high-risk” categories as they…