
Prevalence of misuse of select Rx drug types in past month U.S. 2017
This statistic depicts the overall U.S. rate of self-reported misuse of prescribed pain relievers, tranquilizers, stimulants and sedatives among the U.S. population aged 12 years and older, for 2017. The prevalence of tranquilizers misuse in the preceding month was 0.6 percent.