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Opioid prescriptions during pregnancy linked to higher rates of childhood hospital admission

Children whose mothers received opioid prescriptions during pregnancy have a higher rate of hospital admission in childhood than unexposed children, including unexposed siblings, according to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Dong Keon Yon of Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, South Korea, and colleagues.

Opioid prescriptions during pregnancy linked to higher rates of childhood hospital admission

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