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Women Prescribed Double Number of Necessary Opioids after C-Sections

women prescribed double opioids necessary after c-sectionA series of three successive studies recently published in the journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology suggest that women are drastically over-prescribed dangerous opioids after C-sections. The studies build off each other to provide a complete picture of how women’s pain is less carefully regarded throughout the medical process than that of men.

In one of the studies, 720 C-section patients were followed after giving birth from six ...

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