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

Figure 4. Weekly Number of Patients Filling Buprenorphine Prescriptions for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and Total Quantity Filled: Existing vs New Patients.

Figure 4.

Number of unique patients filling a prescription for buprenorphine for OUD in a given week (A and B) and total number of dispensed units in a given week (C and D) for existing patients who previously received buprenorphine for OUD (A and C) and new patients who did not previously receive buprenorphine for OUD (B and D). Patients are classified as new if they did not fill a buprenorphine prescription for OUD 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.