{"id":6333,"date":"2017-04-02T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6333"},"modified":"2017-03-31T09:24:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T13:24:29","slug":"in-pain-many-doctors-say-opioids-are-not-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6333","title":{"rendered":"In Pain? Many Doctors Say Opioids Are Not The Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emily Bazar for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important; float: none;\">Those of you who have experienced pain, especially gnawing, chronic pain, know that it affects your happiness, outlook and ability to function.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/news\/in-pain-many-doctors-say-opioids-are-not-the-answer\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=49649486&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8jWcxPRf1F7m_gxtuFdsUjgH09WZIdoAMcXD0__bjf9eEwzfqpP4TnM5HVb6XC3SUc3BBGoZ7-RKxqUCuKICJO-rbC9g&amp;_hsmi=49649486\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';\"><a href=\"http:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/\">California Healthline<\/a>\u00a0is a service of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chcf.org\/\">California Health Care Foundation<\/a>\u00a0produced by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/\">Kaiser Health News<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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