Sarcouncil Journal of Biomedical Sciences

Abstract: Introduction: Background: One of the most often prescribed pharmaceuticals in the world is an opioid pain reliever. Over the past few years, rising opioid misuse tendencies have overshadowed advancements in pain perception and control. Opioid use during pregnancy makes it more difficult to treat a patient population that is already at risk. Objective: This paper aims to outcome evaluation of the effect of opioid use in pregnancy. Patients and methods: This paper showed a cross-sectional study followed to outcome evaluation of the effect of opioid use in pregnancy that conducting throughout 18th 2021 October to 25th May 2022, in different hospitals in Iraq were focused into the study of pregnant patients with used opioid materials during pregnancy. This paper compared between opioid patients and nonopioid patients were, included 60 cases into each of the two groups for ages during 25 to 40 years old by using the SPSS program. Results and discussion: This multiyear population-based study indicated that opioid use and misuse within pregnant women in Iraq is becoming more common, which is consistent with earlier research. The syndrome of neonatal abstinence is becoming more common as opiate misuse rates during pregnancy rise. This condition causes extended neonatal hospital stays, which raises the total cost of care for these moms and their newborns. By examining the effects of opiate use and addiction throughout pregnancy on a variety of mother and newborn birth outcomes, the current study adds to the body of prior research. This result was anticipated, given that these comorbid illnesses are linked to the emergence of chronic pain, a poor response to painkillers, or the presence of the clinical condition after opiate withdrawal. Conclusion: To sum up, our study shown that treating a patient population that is already at risk is made more challenging by opiate usage during pregnancy. Dependency makes poor outcomes for moms and newborns more probable. In addition to having fewer stable households, a worse socioeconomic status, and inadequate prenatal care.