Table 2.

Annual sample characteristics including total opioid prescriptions and frequency of individuals receiving single vs. multiple prescriptions

Year	Total annual opioid prescriptions	Total patients receiving their first opioid prescription*	Total patients who received an opioid prescription**	Patients who received a single opioid prescription	Patients who received multiple opioid prescriptions	% of sample receiving multiple opioid prescriptions
2005	2470	1733	1736	1345	391	22.52%
2006	5150	3431	3644	2830	814	22.34%
2007	7000	4374	4864	3725	1139	23.42%
2008	7562	4439	5176	3884	1292	24.96%
2009	7487	4280	5124	3847	1277	24.92%
2010	7215	4128	4980	3839	1141	22.91%
2011	6974	3940	4846	3704	1142	23.57%
2012	6295	3574	4452	3443	1009	22.66%
2013	6203	3503	4337	3343	994	22.92%
2014	5736	3153	3983	3081	902	22.65%
2015	4945	2777	3470	2658	812	23.40%
2016	4610	2688	3387	2698	689	20.34%
TOTAL	71647	42020	49999	38397	11602	23.20%

^*Represents number of unique patient in the dataset.

^**This includes more patients than in the first column because some individuals received prescriptions in multiple years.

Thus, each patient is counted only once per year, but may show up in multiple years.