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Table 4 Estimated number of long-term regular opioid users (LROUs), registered OAT clients, number of OAT providers and LROUs/OAT providers (availability) and number of OAT patients as a percentage of the estimated number of LROUs (coverage) by region and total for the Czech Republic in 2016

From: The complex relation between access to opioid agonist therapy and diversion of opioid medications: a case example of large-scale misuse of buprenorphine in the Czech Republic

Region

Number of estimated LROUs

Number of registered OAT clients

Number of registered OAT providers

Number of estimated LROUs per 1 provider

Proportion of estimated LROUs in OAT

Prague

8900

1317

20

445

14.8

Central Bohemia

700

138

8

88

19.7

South Bohemia

500

52

5

100

10.4

Pilsen

400

41

3

133

10.3

Karlovy Vary

100

7

1

100

7.0

Ústí nad Labem

900

299

5

180

33.2

Liberec

< 50

22

3

17

44.0

Hradec Králové

200

105

3

67

52.5

Pardubice

< 50

0

0

0

0.0

Vysočina

< 50

20

2

25

40.0

South Moravia

400

142

7

57

35.5

Olomouc

100

42

1

100

42.0

Zlín

100

1

1

100

1.0

Moravia-Silesia

300

80

4

75

26.7

Czech Republic in total

12,500

2266

63

198

18.1

  1. Source: Mravčík et al. [40]