Research Article
Evaluating the Risk of Prescription Opioid Misuse among Adult Emergency Department Patients
Table 1
Gender differences in opioid abuse risk factors among the emergency medicine population.
| | | Male (N = 111) N (%) | Female (N = 189) N (%) | Total (N = 300) N (%) | value |
| | Age (years) | | 18–45 | 71 (64%) | 105 (56%) | 177 (58%) | 0.341 | | 46–54 | 19 (17%) | 25 (13%) | 45 (15%) | | >55 | 21 (19%) | 59 (31%) | 80 (26%) |
| | Family history | | Alcohol abuse | 47 (42%) | 71 (38%) | 119 (39%) | 0.468 | | Illicit drug abuse | 39 (35%) | 61 (32%) | 100 (33%) | 0.688 | | PRX drug misuse | 24 (22%) | 37 (20%) | 61 (21%) | 0.643 |
| | Personal history | | Alcohol abuse | 83 (75%) | 92 (49%) | 175 (58%) | 0.0001 | | Illicit drug abuse | 58 (52%) | 62 (33%) | 120 (40%) | 0.001 | | PRX drug misuse | 18 (16%) | 29 (15%) | 47 (16%) | 0.815 | | Depression | 30 (27%) | 81 (43%) | 111 (37%) | 0.007 | | Psychiatric disorder | 20 (18%) | 21 (11%) | 41 (14%) | 0.087 |
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