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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2020 Feb 24;115(9):1683–1694. doi: 10.1111/add.14991

Table 1:

Description of patient episodes, follow up time and overdose deaths during study period 2015–2016

Number of Patients 48,274

 Patients with medication treatment episodes only 23,992 (49.70%)
 Patients with non-medication treatment episodes only 13,497 (27.96%)
 Patients with both medication and non-medication treatment episodes 10,785 (22.34%)

Number of Follow-Up Episodes 185,568

 During non-medication treatment 44,176 (23.81%)
 During medication treatment* 55,016 (29.65%)
 After non-medication treatment 37,863 (20.40%)
 After medication treatment 48,513 (26.14%)

Average Length of Follow up Episodes 123 days

 During non-medication treatment 22 days
 During medication treatment 248 days
 After non-medication treatment 118 days
 After medication treatment 79 days

Average In-Treatment Episodes per Patient 2

Substances Involved in Opioid Overdose Deaths During Follow Up 371

 Prescription opioids 130 (35.04%)
 Methadone 114 (30.73%)
 Heroin 241 (64.96%)
 Fentanyl 213 (57.41%)
*

Of the 55,016 medication treatment episodes, 93.31% involved methadone, and 6.69% involved buprenorphine