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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2010 Jun;19(6):627–637. doi: 10.1002/pds.1939

Table 2.

Rates of Prescription Opioid Abuse per 10,000 patients in New Mexico 3-digit ZIP Codes

870 871* 873* 874 875 877 878 879 880* 881* 882 883 884
Oxycodone 253.5 576.7 230.9 433.4 488.8 500.0 476.2 239.5 362.7 331.4 256.4 288.9 103.7
Hydrocodone 293.5 414.6 213.1 588.2 479.4 634.6 381.0 179.6 470.6 286.0 382.5 279.2 332.0
Morphine 40.0 56.6 17.8 31.0 61.7 38.5 0.0 59.9 45.8 18.2 21.0 38.5 41.5
OxyContin® 126.8 232.5 124.3 201.2 182.7 211.5 381.0 59.9 147.1 99.9 79.9 77.0 83.0
Vicodin® and generic equivalents 140.1 253.9 106.6 170.3 123.4 192.3 190.5 119.8 388.9 122.6 227.0 144.4 145.2
MS Contin® and generic equivalents 26.7 36.7 0.0 15.5 40.3 19.2 0.0 59.9 26.1 9.1 4.2 14.4 20.7

Total No. Patients 1499 6537 563 646 4214 520 105 167 3060 2203 2379 2077 482
*

= 3-digit ZIP codes where product-specific clusters of abuse observed after availability adjustment