Data Interactive: U.S. Opioid Prescribing Rates
2022
These interactive maps from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) illustrate the geographic distribution of retail opioid prescriptions dispensed in the United States at both the state and county levels. Data is shown as a rate per 100 people, and maps are available for each year from 2019 to 2022; corresponding data tables are also provided. The data show that the national opioid prescribing rate steadily decreased from 46.8 prescriptions dispensed per 100 persons in 2019 to 39.5 prescriptions dispensed per 100 persons in 2022. However, prescribing rates remain very high in areas across the country—in approximately four percent of U.S. counties, enough prescriptions were dispensed for each person to have one. While the national rate in 2022 was 39.5 prescriptions per 100 people, some counties had rates nine times higher than that.
Data Interactive: U.S. Opioid Prescribing Rates
Source:
U.S. Prescribing Rate Maps. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/rxrate-maps/index.html.