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Table 1 Total number, number per 100,000 residents, and rate of change of all opioid agonist therapy and methadone prescribers through study period (June 2017 through May 2019), all provinces

From: Federal opioid agonist therapy policy: interrupted time series analysis of the impact of the methadone exemption removal across eight provinces in Canada

Province

Number of all OAT prescribers June 2017 (per 100,000 residents)

Number of all OAT prescribers, May 2019 (per 100,000 residents)

Percent change (per 100,000 residents)

Number of methadone prescribers June 2017 (per 100,000 residents)

Number of methadone prescribers May 2019 (per 100,000 residents)

Percent change (per 100,000 residents)

BC

883 (18.0)

1315 (26.0)

48.9 (44.2)

621 (12.7)

869 (17.2)

39.9 (35.5)

AB

240 (5.7)

511 (11.8)

112.9 (107.2)

113 (2.7)

128 (2.9)

13.3 (10.2)

SK

27 (2.4)

50 (4.3)

85.2 (81.5)

7 (0.6)

19 (1.6)

171.4 (166.0)

MB

65 (4.9)

80 (5.9)

23.1 (19.8)

58 (4.4)

67 (4.9)

15.5 (12.4)

ON

1204 (6.9)

1792 (12.4)

48.8 (44.1)

461 (3.3)

537 (3.7)

16.5 (12.8)

QC

212 (2.6)

386 (4.6)

82.1 (77.9)

163 (2.0)

231 (2.7)

41.7 (38.5)

NB

42 (5.5)

65 (8.4)

54.8 (52.9)

36 (4.7)

46 (5.9)

27.8 (26.3)

NS

130 (13.7)

173 (17.9)

33.1 (30.6)

103 (10.9)

124 (12.8)

20.4 (18.1)

  1. BC: British Columbia, AB: Alberta, SK: Saskatchewan, MB: Manitoba, ON: Ontario, QC: Quebec, NB: New Brunswick, NS: Nova Scotia