{"id":7545,"date":"2022-09-16T12:14:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=7545"},"modified":"2022-09-16T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T17:14:49","slug":"stephanie-nichols-co-authored-peripartum-and-postpartum-analgesia-and-pain-in-women-prescribed-buprenorphine-for-opioid-use-disorder-who-deliver-by-cesarean-section-published-in-june-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/stephanie-nichols-co-authored-peripartum-and-postpartum-analgesia-and-pain-in-women-prescribed-buprenorphine-for-opioid-use-disorder-who-deliver-by-cesarean-section-published-in-june-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Nichols co-authored &#8220;Peripartum and Postpartum Analgesia and Pain in Women Prescribed Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder Who Deliver by Cesarean Section&#8221; published in June 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>O&#8217;Connor AB, Smith J, O&#8217;Brien LM, Lamarche K, Byers N, Nichols SD. Peripartum and Postpartum Analgesia and Pain in Women Prescribed Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder Who Deliver by Cesarean Section.&nbsp;<em>Subst Abuse<\/em>. 2022;16:11782218221107936. Published 2022 Jun 21. doi:10.1177\/11782218221107936<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our retrospective case-controlled study found that people who are delivering a baby via C-Section and receiving chronic&nbsp;buprenorphine therapy at doses &gt;8mg&nbsp;can achieve adequate analgesia with full opioid agonists and safely remain on their &gt;8mg prescribed home dose. This is significant because buprenorphine is first-line therapy for opioid use disorder and &gt; 8mg dose is necessary for reducing nonprescribed opioid use. Pregnant people have expanded blood volume and a larger volume of buprenorphine distribution resulting in significantly lower levels. Current C-section pre-operative care includes discontinuing or lowering buprenorphine to 8mg. Reducing buprenorphine dose or discontinuing therapy pre-delivery places the patient at greater risk for overdose due to increased&nbsp;stress of childbirth and caregiving responsibilities combined with loss of robust OUD treatment. This evidence contributes to a growing body of evidence that illustrates the safety of continuing a pregnant person&#8217;s home buprenorphine dose throughout the delivery and post-acute hospital recovery period.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;Connor AB, Smith J, O&#8217;Brien LM, Lamarche K, Byers N, Nichols SD. Peripartum and Postpartum Analgesia &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications-and-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7546,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions\/7546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7545"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=7545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}