In this episode, third year medical students Tristen Zimmerman and Katie Buerk talk through an overview of the opioid epidemic, opioid use during pregnancy, and current data (or lack thereof) regarding the use of Naloxone in pregnant patients.

Sources mentioned:

https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/epidemic/index.html

https://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(16)30866-3/abstract

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31104311/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29271100/

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