{"id":6468,"date":"2017-04-15T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2017-04-13T10:35:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T14:35:54","slug":"a-rash-of-overdoses-in-west-virginia-made-national-news-this-is-the-story-of-the-man-who-caused-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6468","title":{"rendered":"A rash of overdoses in West Virginia made national news. This is the story of the man who caused it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andrew Joseph for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p>AKRON, Ohio \u2014 Last May, a low-level drug dealer named Bruce Griggs was released from an Ohio prison. He had served a short sentence stemming from a possession conviction so routine that his former defense attorney would later have trouble recalling it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/04\/12\/huntington-west-virginia-overdoses\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--p-6EuW-JlzwpkO4qkNvKVnEdCteKW_8YXL4e_0f2dyG2oUE5YBThjQUlYMVqSPP4-a9fOwyziWLtUYFyeHtPyWkkj-w&amp;_hsmi=50600947\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andrew Joseph for STAT) AKRON, Ohio \u2014 Last May, a low-level drug dealer named Bruce Griggs was released from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6468","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\/6468","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=6468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6469,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions\/6469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}