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CDC, conflicting with standard of care, proscribes opioids for pregnant women
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30037
Subject(s) - medical prescription , medicine , family medicine , pregnancy , obstetrics , psychiatry , nursing , biology , genetics
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised pregnant women across America that if they take prescription opioids, their babies might have birth defects. The message, issued in a January 22 press release to accompany a study of opioid analgesia prescribing in that week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ( MMWR ), also advises that women of reproductive age should not take prescription opioids because they might get pregnant and subject the child to birth defects.