{"id":5183,"date":"2016-12-02T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5183"},"modified":"2016-12-02T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T14:37:16","slug":"delivered-like-a-pizza-why-killer-drug-fentanyl-is-so-hard-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5183","title":{"rendered":"Delivered \u2018Like A Pizza\u2019: Why Killer Drug Fentanyl Is So Hard To Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Martha Babanger, WBUR for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The latest chart of overdose deaths in Massachusetts shows a climbing blue line labeled \u201cfentanyl.\u201d Pick a spot on that line in mid-August and picture a big, affable 40-year-old man named Joe Salemi. He died at his mom\u2019s home in working-class Everett, Mass., after almost 25 years of heroin use. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/delivered-like-a-pizza-why-killer-drug-fentanyl-is-so-hard-to-stop\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=38593915&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8PyFhkk2XZMgzZzl9I2_3EpwTvmHhLF-wBT3XAwqWihwZvvGCxbT5U63PszLQqViyxFCmiuwhG0oe3H3vrpt5P73lYfg&amp;_hsmi=38593915\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -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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