Table 2: Patient-reported v. confirmed prescriptions for opioids among patients receiving long-term opioid therapy (n = 149)*.
| Variable | No. (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Codeine | Oxycodone | Tramadol | Hydromorphone | Methadone | Morphine | Other opioid | |
| Patients with a confirmed prescription | 17 (11.4) | 51 (34.2) | 8 (5.4) | 52 (34.9) | 16 (10.7) | 16 (10.7) | 18 (12.1)† |
| Patients who did not report a confirmed prescription | 3 (2.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (2.0) | 5 (3.4) | 1 (0.7) | 4 (2.7) | 12 (8.0)† |
| Patients who reported a prescription that they did not have | 6 (4.0) | 7 (4.7) | 1 (0.7) | 10 (6.7) | 2 (1.3) | 6 (4.0) | 26 (17.4)‡ |
*Total numbers across rows are greater than 149 because some patients were prescribed more than 1 opioid. †These were fentanyl patches in all cases. ‡Respondents listed the following drugs as opioids: desipramine, nortriptyline, gabapentin, baclofen, lorazepam, nabilone, pregabalin, naproxen and duloxetine.