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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2021 Apr 6;116(10):2790–2800. doi: 10.1111/add.15487

Table 2.

Timing of first observed opioid use disorder (OUD) and opioid overdose diagnosesa relative to an initial opioid prescription among 10,405 youth experiencing opioid-related complications.


Time since initial prescription, days
OUD diagnosis (N=8,935)
N (%)
Overdose (N=1,738)
N (%)
1–7 295 (3.2%) 133 (7.7%)
8–14 239 (2.6%) 66 (3.8%)
15–30 498 (5.4%) 131 (7.5%)
31–60 857 (9.4%) 192 (11.1%)
61–90 830 (9.1%) 150 (8.6%)
91–180 2,301 (25.2%) 420 (24.2%)
181–365 4,115 (45.1%) 646 (37.2%)
a.

468 individuals received both an OUD and an overdose diagnosis and are included in both columns.