Steep Rise in Births to U.S. Girls Utilizing Opioids
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2017 (HealthDay Information) -- Over a decade, there was an almost fivefold enhance within the variety of infants born every year to American ladies who've used opioids, a federal authorities report says.
There was additionally a dramatic rise within the variety of infants born with a dependency on opioids, the report discovered. These medicine embody heroin and prescription painkillers resembling fentanyl, oxycodone (OxyContin) and hydrocodone/acetaminophen (Vicodin).
"It's vital that pregnant ladies of all ages have entry to prevention, therapy and restoration providers that meet their specialised wants," stated Kana Enomoto, from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Companies Administration (SAMHSA).
"Applications that present pregnant ladies with entry to opioid use dysfunction therapy and reproductive well being providers may also help make sure that these future moms and their youngsters stay more healthy, happier, and extra productive lives," Enomoto stated in an company information launch. SAMHSA ready the report for U.S. Congress.
General, ladies of childbearing age who have been pregnant have been much less more likely to have used an opioid just lately (1 %) in comparison with non-pregnant ladies (three %), the SAMHSA examine discovered.
Nonetheless, even that one % determine interprets to a median of about 21,000 pregnant ladies utilizing opioids for "non-medical causes" up to now month, the report's authors stated.
Age was a significant component in opioid use throughout being pregnant. Youthful ladies are considerably extra seemingly to make use of opioids for non-medical causes throughout being pregnant. These 15-17 had the very best use (2.eight %), whereas ladies between 18 and 25 had the subsequent highest charges (1.5 %).
In distinction, amongst pregnant ladies over 25, solely zero.5 % had used opioids for a non-medical purpose up to now month, the report stated.
Of the greater than 21,000 ladies who have been pregnant when admitted for substance abuse therapy in 2012, 23 % reported heroin use, whereas 28 % reported utilizing a non-heroin opioid.
Particular therapy applications for pregnant/postpartum ladies aren't at all times straightforward to search out, the examine discovered. In truth, in response to SAMHSA, simply 13 % of outpatient-only substance abuse therapy services provide applications for pregnant and postpartum ladies. And 13 % of residential therapy services have such applications, in response to 2012 SAMHSA information.
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SOURCE: U.S. Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Companies Administration, information launch, Jan. 17, 2017
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