Fact Based List:
Ten Takeaways from Quest Analysis of Test Results from Patients with Substance Use Disorders
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 09/14/2018 - 15:30
- 52% tested in 2017 misused their prescription drugs, the same rate as in 2016
- The epidemic is shifting beyond prescription opioids to encompass other drugs and dangerous drug combinations
- Drug mixing is the most common type of misuse
- Misuse of heroin and non-prescribed fentanyl increased nearly 400 percent
- 20% of test results showed potentially dangerous concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepines in 2017, with at least one of the drugs not prescribed in 64% of those test
- For test results positive for heroin, 83 percent were also positive for non-prescribed fentanyl, compared to 45% in 2016
- Gabapentin misuse surged by nearly 800 percent among patients in treatment for SUD with 8% of the substance use patients using non-prescribed gabapentin
- Use of medical marijuana surged by nearly 620 percent overall
- Recreational marijuana use dropped more than 5 percent for substance abuse and general populations, though its overall rate of use, at 14.7 percent, was still higher than medical marijuana
- The use of cocaine declined by 40 percent among all patients tested
Source: Quest Diagnostics
Source URL: http://newsroom.questdiagnostics.com/2018-09-06-Quest-Diagno...
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