Healio (11/27, Welsh) reports, “About 1% of women who filled an opioid prescription after childbirth had evidence of persistent opioid use in the subsequent postpartum year, researchers reported in Obstetrics & Gynecology.” In the study, “of women who initiated opioid prescriptions after childbirth, 1,282, or 10.8 per 1,000 deliveries, had new persistent opioid use in the subsequent postpartum year
New persistent opioid use rates were higher after vaginal deliveries compared with cesarean deliveries (16 vs. 9.8 per 1,000), and rates decreased from 2013 to 2021 for cesarean (from 14.2 to 7.9 per 1,000) and vaginal (from 30.5 to 6.7 per 1,000) deliveries.”
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— “About 1% of mothers had new persistent opioid use in the first postpartum year,” Erin T. Welsh, Healio, November 27, 2023