Evaluating the Risk of Prescription Opioid Misuse among Adult Emergency Department Patients

Table 2

The perception of sharing prescribed controlled substances by opioid risk classification.

	Low + moderate risk	Score 0–7	N = 171 (%)	High opioid risk	Score 8+	N = 129 (%)	Total N = 300 (%)	value
Age (years)
18–45	91 (53%)			85 (66%)			176 (59%)	0.03
46–54	24 (14%)			19 (15%)			43 (14%)
>55	55 (32%)			25 (19%)			80 (27%)
What do you do with your additional prescribed controlled medications?
Share w/family and friends	5 (3%)			23 (18%)			28 (9%)	0.001
Save for later	96 (56%)			85 (68%)			181 (60%)	0.11
Dispose of all medications	69 (40%)			29 (22%)			98 (33%)	0.0017
There is nothing wrong with sharing prescribed controlled substances	21 (12%)			24 (19%)			45 (15%)	0.17