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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 28.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2019 Jan;38(1):14–23. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05162

Exhibit 2. Association between the proportion of outpatient substance use treatment facilities in each state that offered medication treatment (MT) in 2016 andstates’ opioid overdose death rates per 100,000 population in 2015–16.

Exhibit 2

source Authors’ analysis of data for 2016 from the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services and for 2015–16 based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drawn by the authors from the CDC Wonder database. notes The exhibit shows death rates for the District of Columbia as well as the fifty states. The correlation between the share of facilities offering MT and death rates was significant (p < 0:001), with a correlation coefficient of 0.61.