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. 2021 Apr 15;4(4):e216147. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.6147

Figure 3. Weekly Number of Patients Filling Opioid Analgesic Prescriptions and Total Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MMEs) Filled: Existing vs New Patients.

Figure 3.

Number of unique patients filling an opioid analgesic prescription in a given week (A and B) and total MMEs filled in a given week (C and D) for patients who previously received opioids (A and C) and opioid-naive patients (B and D). Patients are classified as opioid naive if they did not fill an opioid prescription in the past 365 days. Each data point represents the measure over a 7-day period. Labels on the x-axes refer to the first day of the week. Dotted vertical lines correspond to the weeks starting on March 18 and May 20, 2020. These dates coincide with President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency concerning the novel coronavirus disease outbreak and the first week that the 7-day moving average number of deaths was below 1500 per day since early April 2020, respectively.