Siegal Nicole, Simon Kosali, Freedman Seth, Aalsma Matthew C, Wing Coady
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
J Adolesc Health. 2025 Aug;77(2):335-337. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2025.05.008. Epub 2025 Jul 3.
To examine youth opioid misuse trends before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic era.
We use nationally representative data from the 2015-2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health to study self-reported opioid misuse by age, among youth ages 12-25 years.
The downward trend in youth opioid misuse has flattened since the pandemic, and the gaps between opioid misuse across age groups have closed.
One explanation is that by 2020 youth opioid misuse rates had already reached very low rates-the prevalence of misuse was less than 5% in all age groups in the 12-25 years range. Since opioid misuse rates are naturally bound below by zero, the converging and flattening of youth opioid misuse rates suggest little room for further reductions despite increasing mortality rates.
研究新冠疫情时代之前、期间和之后青少年阿片类药物滥用的趋势。
我们使用2015 - 2022年全国药物使用和健康调查中的全国代表性数据，研究12至25岁青少年按年龄自我报告的阿片类药物滥用情况。
自疫情以来，青少年阿片类药物滥用的下降趋势趋于平缓，各年龄组之间阿片类药物滥用的差距已经缩小。
一种解释是，到2020年，青少年阿片类药物滥用率已经非常低——在12至25岁的所有年龄组中，滥用率均低于5%。由于阿片类药物滥用率自然下限为零，青少年阿片类药物滥用率的趋同和平缓表明，尽管死亡率上升，但进一步降低的空间很小。
