{"id":9843,"date":"2018-03-15T07:47:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T11:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9843"},"modified":"2018-03-15T07:47:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T11:47:51","slug":"how-many-opioid-overdoses-are-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9843","title":{"rendered":"How Many Opioid Overdoses Are Suicides?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Martha Bebinger for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Mady Ohlman was 22 on the evening some years ago when she stood in a friend&#8217;s bathroom looking down at the sink.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had set up a bunch of needles filled with heroin because I wanted to just do them back-to-back-to-back,&#8221; Ohlman recalls. She doesn&#8217;t remember how many she injected before collapsing, or how long she lay drugged-out on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I remember being pissed because I could still get up, you know?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/03\/15\/591577807\/how-many-opioid-overdoses-are-suicides?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=61383998&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-90amxyjaU4xreU2GXyUkUEB3OaSS8uZawnwMjBWb6bkTPFqUf3AuKditJ-te2Dt66m3lA0GbgNhRYGC5qRKalYh3NOmg&amp;_hsmi=61383998\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: 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 Martha Bebinger for NPR) Mady Ohlman was 22 on the evening some years ago when she stood in a<\/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-9843","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\/9843","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=9843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9844,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843\/revisions\/9844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}