{"id":6677,"date":"2017-05-06T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6677"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:41:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:41:04","slug":"study-results-no-long-term-benefits-of-opioid-medications-for-chronic-back-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6677","title":{"rendered":"Study Results: No Long-Term Benefits of Opioid Medications for Chronic Back Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a first-of-its-kind research at the Minneapolis VA has found no long-term benefits for patients taking opioid medications for chronic back pain or arthritic knees and hips. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/minneapolis-va-study-challenges-wide-use-of-opioids\/421327343\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=51579821&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--wU-6uploi1rGjIhVYSmNh1JvCudh_1FGnolqe0SQmufvcLnRcCjRQLZjxh86epkwaxkM4pVcQACFJdDbATXkfbvbF1g&amp;_hsmi=51579821\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/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>In a first-of-its-kind research at the Minneapolis VA has found no long-term benefits for patients taking opioid medications for chronic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677","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=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}