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Prevalence of opioid use (total and by gender) over time (2013-2024)
Posted: Jun 17, 2025
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*In 2020/21 there was a change to the way the question on drug use was asked in the NZ Health Survey. The Ministry of Health advises caution when comparing results from before 2020/21 with results from 2020/21 and after.
†Prevalence of opioid use by men should be interpreted with caution as some data points have an RSE (relative sampling error; the size of the sampling error relative to the result) over 30%.
