{"id":5361,"date":"2016-12-21T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2016-12-21T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T13:55:00","slug":"aging-and-addicted-the-opioid-epidemic-affects-older-adults-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5361","title":{"rendered":"Aging And Addicted: The Opioid Epidemic Affects Older Adults, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jenny Gold for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>It took a lot of convincing for John Evard to go to rehab. Seven days into his stay at the Las Vegas Recovery Center, the nausea and aching muscles of opioid withdrawal were finally beginning to fade. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/aging-and-addicted-the-opioid-epidemic-affects-older-adults-too\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=39609375&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8E_1YSjPfd6B7pqqY9ckz0kADbOj3FPC5TZjt5DhFIM0sdaMJSsvNJfuXzgLGmlZvoJNgjBanUznm_Wrcef-S9P37DXA&amp;_hsmi=39609375\" 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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