Figure 2: Histograms of medication uptake by month and medication type in a commercially insured cohort of individuals initiating medication for opioid use disorder in 2018.
XR-BUP=Extended-release buprenorphine; XR-NTX=extended-release naltrexone; M-BUP=sublingual buprenorphine (mono- or co-formulated with naloxone). For each histogram, the vertical axis is the percent of total initiations of the given medication that occurred on a given month. For example, of all M-BUP initiations, just under 10% occurred in January.