{"id":3634,"date":"2016-07-21T08:49:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T12:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2016-07-21T08:50:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T12:50:06","slug":"study-medicare-beneficiaries-may-face-treatment-gap-for-painkiller-abuse-misuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3634","title":{"rendered":"Study: Medicare Beneficiaries May Face \u2018Treatment Gap\u2019 For Painkiller Abuse, Misuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>When most people think of the victims of the nation\u2019s opioid abuse epidemic, they seldom picture members of the Medicare set.<\/p>\n<p>But a <a href=\"http:\/\/archpsyc.jamanetwork.com\/article.aspx?doi=10.1001\/jamapsychiatry.2016.1390\">research letter<\/a> published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry found Medicare beneficiaries had the highest and most rapidly growing rate of \u201copioid use disorder.\u201d Six of every 1,000 recipients struggle with the condition, compared with one out of every 1,000 patients covered through commercial insurance plans. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/study-medicare-beneficiaries-may-face-treatment-gap-for-painkiller-abuse-misuse\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=31926900&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8Sc6_bfIA7eK41nRGavKQam0Rt7ZD38ioCEEdwfoOT6l5lMXL7AjffkV4wQ8gyNEbJKwiDCxtaLkN-ViS7WF6ybM60Mw&amp;_hsmi=31926900\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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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 Carmen Heredia Rodriguez for Kaiser Health News) When most people think of the victims of the nation\u2019s opioid abuse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-emerging-health-issues","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","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=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}