By the Numbers - July 7, 2014
44%
The percentage of 2,597 soldiers who had been deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq who reported suffering from chronic pain, according to a research study at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, recently published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine -- Chronic Pain and Opioid Use in US Soldiers After Combat Deployment. 23.2% of these soldiers "reported past-month opioid use."
According to the reseachers:
Chronic pain was significantly associated with age 30 years or older, being married or having been married previously, injury during combat, combat intensity, PTSD, and MDD. Opioid use was associated with sex, age 25 years or older, being married, rank, injury during combat, chronic pain, and pain severity.
44%
The percentage of 2,597 soldiers who had been deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq who reported suffering from chronic pain, according to a research study at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, recently published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine -- Chronic Pain and Opioid Use in US Soldiers After Combat Deployment. 23.2% of these soldiers "reported past-month opioid use."
According to the reseachers:
Chronic pain was significantly associated with age 30 years or older, being married or having been married previously, injury during combat, combat intensity, PTSD, and MDD. Opioid use was associated with sex, age 25 years or older, being married, rank, injury during combat, chronic pain, and pain severity.