{"id":6416,"date":"2017-04-09T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6416"},"modified":"2017-04-07T10:28:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T14:28:53","slug":"another-circle-of-hell-surviving-opioids-in-the-fentanyl-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6416","title":{"rendered":"Another Circle Of Hell: Surviving Opioids In The Fentanyl Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Martha Bebinger, WBUR for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a clear culprit in the rising drug overdose death count in Massachusetts \u2014 the synthetic opioid fentanyl. More powerful and more deadly than heroin, fentanyl has sparked a new set of survival rules among people who abuse opioids.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

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