{"id":3939,"date":"2016-08-13T05:42:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T09:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:43:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:43:57","slug":"us-babies-born-addicted-to-opioids-has-tripled-in-15-years-cdc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3939","title":{"rendered":"US babies born addicted to opioids has tripled in 15 years, CDC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Casey Ross for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">T<\/span>he number of babies being born in the United States addicted to opioids has tripled in a 15-year stretch, according to a <span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6531a2.htm?s_cid=mm6531a2_w\" target=\"_blank\">government report<\/a> published Thursday.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/08\/11\/babies-opioids-addiction\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_aQcODxp2aTRa1_iCuDoHZWxMs_ru03L7a920OYpWZBYIgcn9KXNDtt8xgZZIZiEpQhciYD1TrSx1Fo8wkbJtgvRaRQQ&amp;_hsmi=32858954\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Casey Ross for STAT) The number of babies being born in the United States addicted to opioids has tripled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","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=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}