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

  • Rate of new persistent opioid use among women who underwent vaginal delivery was 1.7%, and 2.2% among those 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


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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 Netw Open. 2019;2(7):e197863. Published 2019 Jul 3. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.7863