{"id":4557,"date":"2016-10-04T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4557"},"modified":"2016-10-04T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T16:11:00","slug":"not-just-for-medics-drugs-that-reverse-opioid-overdoses-are-being-pushed-to-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4557","title":{"rendered":"Not just for medics: Drugs that reverse opioid overdoses are being pushed to the masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andrew Joseph for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p>BALTIMORE \u2014 After two decades of sending a needle exchange van around this city, officials here last year started doing something new. They wouldn\u2019t just hand out clean syringes; they would distribute the antidote to the opioid overdoses ravaging local communities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/10\/03\/naloxone-opioid-overdoses-narcan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" 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 Andrew Joseph for STAT) BALTIMORE \u2014 After two decades of sending a needle exchange van around this city, officials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","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=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}