{"id":3559,"date":"2016-07-15T08:53:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2016-07-15T08:53:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T12:53:08","slug":"senate-sends-first-major-opioids-legislation-to-obamas-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3559","title":{"rendered":"Senate sends first major opioids legislation to Obama\u2019s desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Dylan Scott for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">W<\/span>ASHINGTON \u2014 The first major legislation to address the growing crisis of opioid addiction is on its way to President Obama\u2019s desk, after the Senate approved the package in a strong bipartisan vote on Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/07\/13\/senate-opioids-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Dylan Scott for STAT) WASHINGTON \u2014 The first major legislation to address the growing crisis of opioid addiction is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3560,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}