{"id":12693,"date":"2019-02-21T07:31:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T12:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12693"},"modified":"2019-02-21T07:31:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T12:31:18","slug":"more-states-say-doctors-must-offer-overdose-reversal-drug-along-with-opioids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12693","title":{"rendered":"More States Say Doctors Must Offer Overdose Reversal Drug Along With Opioids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Barbara Feder Ostrov for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>In a growing number of states, patients who get opioids for serious pain may leave their doctors\u2019 offices with a second prescription \u2014 for naloxone, a drug that can save their lives if they overdose on the powerful painkillers.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/more-states-say-doctors-must-offer-overdose-reversal-drug-along-with-opioids\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=70118040&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9EMT7jDQAWi_mhXfVbN7mRVIYm4oTk7o_OtJOn4Sij2zD5XWdYagNY1b9OEZ9RJ0ySwNhxN7kWzydHZxox5c0NP2pcBg&amp;_hsmi=70118040\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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