{"id":11364,"date":"2018-08-31T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11364"},"modified":"2018-08-30T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T14:45:53","slug":"the-senate-could-soon-pass-an-opioids-package-but-a-new-law-is-still-a-long-way-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11364","title":{"rendered":"The Senate could soon pass an opioids package. But a new law is still a long way away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Lev Facher for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The Senate is likely to pass a comprehensive bill to address the opioid crisis in the coming weeks.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/06\/21\/house-bills-opioid-crisis\/\">The House<\/a>\u00a0did so in June. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2018\/08\/30\/senate-opioids-legislation\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=65569557&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8M_kSh7pZeHvpnXPqWuuhFm1l9ujnzMW95EpKHJuPoNvmSH7O5OS3eYXc3W4EFzAuStPKziuMG8zOgh1YJsvpUlMxpFA&amp;_hsmi=65569557\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\">\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Lev Facher for STAT) WASHINGTON \u2014 The Senate is likely to pass a comprehensive bill to address the opioid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-legislative-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11365,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11364\/revisions\/11365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}