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From: Drugs involved in Kentucky drug poisoning deaths and relation with antecedent controlled substance prescription dispensing

Fig. 1

Median time (years/days from the last dispensed prescription for specific medications to drug poisoning deaths, Kentucky drug poisoning decedents, 2021

* Methadone for treatment of opioid use disorder is not reported to the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting (KASPER) system. Gabapentin became a Schedule V controlled substance in Kentucky, reportable to KASPER on July 1, 2017

Note: The reported number of decedents with history of specific dispensed controlled substance includes everyone with such history, regardless of the involvement of the substance in the drug poisoning death

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Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

ISSN: 1747-597X