{"id":47030,"date":"2014-11-24T04:20:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T04:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vancouver_has_become_the_first_city_in_north_america_to_permit_prescription\/"},"modified":"2014-11-24T04:20:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T04:20:33","slug":"vancouver_has_become_the_first_city_in_north_america_to_permit_prescription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47030","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver has become the first city in North America to permit prescription heroin&#8211;will it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Vancouver&#8217;s experiment work? Studies conducted in Europe\u201d\u201dwhere prescription heroin is common\u201d\u201dreveal that the programs have produced improved public health outcomes as well as reduced crime. Prescription narcotic abuse has been a significant problem in the United States, and heroin abuse is a large and growing problem in the country. A recent study from the Center on Disease Control found that heroin use increased 74 percent from 2009 to 2012, and that in 2012 Americans were twice as likely to suffer a fatal overdose than they were in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>While the success of Vancouver&#8217;s experiment is far from assured, the city&#8217;s willingness to offer prescription heroin reflects a willingness to provide new opportunities for beleaguered addicts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2014\/11\/vancouver-experiments-with-prescription-heroin\/383086\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Vancouver&#8217;s experiment work? Studies conducted in Europe\u201d\u201dwhere prescription heroin is common\u201d\u201dreveal that the programs have produced improved public health outcomes as well as reduced crime. Prescription narcotic abuse has been a significant problem in the United States, and heroin<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47030\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,207,99,114,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-canada","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-law-legal-issues","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}