New mums are getting hooked on tens of thousands of opioids a year
Around 2 percent of women get hooked on opioids prescribed to them after childbirth, according to a new study.The findings, published today in JAMA Network Open, are based on a nationally-representative sample of 300,000 women who gave birth between 2008 and 2016, analyzed by University of Michigan researchers.
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