{"id":9136,"date":"2018-01-03T08:32:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9136"},"modified":"2018-01-03T08:32:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T13:32:31","slug":"pharmacists-slow-to-dispense-lifesaving-overdose-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9136","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacists Slow To Dispense Lifesaving Overdose Drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Anna Gorman for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Gale Dunham, a pharmacist in Calistoga, Calif., knows the devastation the opioid epidemic has wrought, and she is glad the anti-overdose drug naloxone is becoming more accessible. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/pharmacists-slow-to-dispense-lifesaving-overdose-drug\/?utm_campaign=KHN:%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=59753955&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9Iyk4-XZMpOr_bYCfqjsb9ZKBwCev2lIpku8iy9160Ee0v-s8vGc4oiWKfL99-BZ8XoF_PBcEIWwV8wC5FYif2jPaUuA&amp;_hsmi=59753955\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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