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Oxycodone Tied to Persistent Use Only After Vaginal Delivery

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Oxycodone Tied to Persistent Use Only After Vaginal Delivery

Initiating oxycodone instead of codeine for postpartum analgesia was associated with an increased risk of persistent opioid use after vaginal, but not cesarean, delivery, new research suggests. Dr Jonathan Zipursky “In the last decade in Ontario, oxycodone surpassed codeine as the most commonly prescribed opioid postpartum for pain control,” Jonathan Zipursky, MD, PhD, of Sunnybrook … Read more

Prescription of oxycodone versus codeine after childbirth and risk of persistent opioid use: a population-based cohort study

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Abstract Background: Oxycodone is increasingly prescribed for postpartum analgesia in lieu of codeine owing to concerns regarding the neonatal safety of codeine during lactation. We examined whether initiation of oxycodone after delivery was associated with an increased risk of persistent opioid use relative to initiation of codeine. Methods: We conducted a population-based cohort study of … Read more