By Michael Vlessides
Montreal—Mimicking results in adults, new research has found that opioid-naive children are at increased risk for persistent opioid use after surgery.
According to a team of investigators at Stanford University School of Medicine, in California, while persistent postoperative opioid use was relatively infrequent among patients less than 12 years of age, use among 12- to 18-year-olds approached that found in adults.
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