Skip to main content
Michigan OPEN
Michigan OPEN
Resources  |  Publications

Rates of New Persistent Opioid Use After Vaginal or Cesarean Birth Among US Women

  • Rate of new persistent opioid use was 1.7% among women who underwent vaginal delivery.
  • Rate of new persistent opioid use was 2.2% among women having cesarean birth.
  • Modifiable factors, filling an opioid prescription before delivery, and among women underwent vaginal deliveries, receiving a prescription ≥225 OMEs, were associated with increased odds of new persistent use.
  • Rates of new persistent use have decreased between 2008 and 2016.

    Read Publication

Peahl AF, Dalton VK, Montgomery JR, Lai YL, Hu HM, Waljee JF. Rates of New Persistent Opioid Use After Vaginal or Cesarean Birth Among US Women. JAMA Net Open. 2019;2(7):e197863. Published 2019 Jul 3. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.7863