{"id":7654,"date":"2017-08-02T11:14:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2017-08-02T11:14:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:14:54","slug":"4-steps-to-reversing-the-epidemic-of-opioid-use-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7654","title":{"rendered":"4 steps to reversing the epidemic of opioid use disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Brian D. Sites and Matthew A. Davis for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">H<\/span>ealth care professionals share a common and lofty goal: to minimize their patients\u2019 pain. But what if we\u2019re hurting more people than we\u2019re helping? That may be the sad reality of the opioid epidemic, one driven in part by doctors\u2019 desire to do good. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/08\/01\/opioid-use-disorders-reversing-epidemic\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_6c_3uPs5F8hvmvWsRiTlkvGWx0SOukCQ6kIdVvVPAjHqeaqbyG8MEj6YBXrFI7ZiHnDtAva50-b_vfZAiZ4xWpkEUlA&amp;_hsmi=54884161\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><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=\"\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Brian D. Sites and Matthew A. Davis for STAT) Health care professionals share a common and lofty goal: to<\/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-7654","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\/7654","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=7654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7655,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7654\/revisions\/7655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}