{"id":14321,"date":"2019-10-22T09:21:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14321"},"modified":"2019-10-22T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:22:28","slug":"us-spent-631b-addressing-opioid-crisis-in-last-4-years-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14321","title":{"rendered":"US spent $631B addressing opioid crisis in last 4 years, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Gabrielle Masson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The opioid crisis cost the U.S. at least $631 billion from 2015 to 2018, with healthcare costs constituting a third of the economic loss, according to a study released Oct. 15 by the\u00a0Society of Actuaries.\u00a0\u00a0 Continue reading article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/opioids\/us-spent-631b-addressing-opioid-crisis-in-last-4-years-study-finds.html\"> here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/file000453200083-1-700x466.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7999\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/file000453200083-1-700x466-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/file000453200083-1-700x466-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/file000453200083-1-700x466.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Gabrielle Masson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The opioid crisis cost the U.S. at least $631 billion from 2015 to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321","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=14321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14323,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions\/14323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}