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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2020 Jun;161(6):1297–1310. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001812

Table 6.

Frequency of markers of morbidity and mortality by year in patients who received single vs. multiple opioid prescriptions

Year Total patients who received an opioid prescription Overdose Incidents Patients Receiving Medication- Assisted Treatment (MAT) Mortality Incidents
Single* Multiple* Total % of annual sample* Single* Multiple* Total % of annual sample* Single* Multiple* Total % of annual sample*
2005 1736 0 0 0 0% 0 1 1 0.06% 2 0 2 0.12%
2006 3644 3 0 3 0.08% 2 4 6 0.16% 2 5 7 0.19%
2007 4864 4 3 7 0.14% 0 3 3 0.06% 2 2 4 0.08%
2008 5176 2 3 5 0.10% 3 7 10 0.19% 5 3 8 0.15%
2009 5124 4 8 12 0.23% 3 8 11 0.21% 5 6 11 0.21%
2010 4980 7 3 10 0.20% 6 7 13 0.26% 3 8 11 0.22%
2011 4846 6 12 18 0.37% 5 8 13 0.27% 8 13 21 0.43%
2012 4452 7 12 19 0.43% 13 11 24 0.54% 10 19 29 0.65%
2013 4337 6 10 16 0.37% 10 9 19 0.44% 9 7 16 0.37%
2014 3983 16 16 32 0.80% 12 11 23 0.58% 9 14 23 0.60%
2015 3470 11 10 21 0.61% 4 7 11 0.32% 6 17 23 0.66%
2016 3387 26 20 46 1.36% 2 13 15 0.44% 24 22 46 1.39%
TOTAL --- 92 97 189 0.45%** 60 89 149 0.35%** 85 116 201 0.48%**
*

Denotes if the incident occurred in a patient who received single or multiple opioid prescriptions during the study timeframe.

**

Percentage of total sample was calculated out of 42,020, number of unique patients in the dataset.