2018 BRFSS Survey Results: North Carolina Regions

Chronic Pain

Has a doctor, nurse, or other health professional talked with you about the risk of getting addicted to your narcotic pain reliever?*

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  Total
Respond.^
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 322 198 62.3 55.4-68.8 124 37.7 31.2-44.6
NC ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DIRECTOR REGIONS
Region 1 & 2 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 3 33 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 4 33 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 5 37 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 6 37 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 7 22 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 8 38 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 9 & 10 56 *** *** *** *** *** ***
STATE REGIONS
Eastern NC 127 80 66.9 56.2-76.1 47 33.1 23.9-43.8
Piedmont 120 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Western NC 75 *** *** *** *** *** ***
AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTERS (AHEC)
Mountain AHEC 51 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Northwest 62 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Charlotte 20 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Greensboro 33 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Southern Regional 53 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Southeast 12 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Wake 22 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Area L & Eastern 69 *** *** *** *** *** ***
NC MEDICAID MANAGED CARE REGIONS
Region 1 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 2 50 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 3 34 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 4 39 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 5 66 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Region 6 67 *** *** *** *** *** ***

Back to Chronic Pain.

*Asked of respondents that used a prescription narcotic pain reliever like Percocet or Vicodin to cope with Chronic Pain.

See Technical Notes for counties in Local Health Director, State and AHEC regions.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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