{"id":52881,"date":"2016-01-07T15:28:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cbs_west_virginia_allows_painkiller_addicts_to_sue_prescribing_doctors\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:28:33","slug":"cbs_west_virginia_allows_painkiller_addicts_to_sue_prescribing_doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52881","title":{"rendered":"(CBS) West Virginia allows painkiller addicts to sue prescribing doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About two million Americans are hooked on prescription painkillers. In 2012, 259 million prescriptions were written &#8212; that&#8217;s one bottle for every American adult. CBS News went to West Virginia, a state that is attempting a drastic solution: allowing addicts to sue the doctors who got them hooked&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are talking in a certain sense drug traffickers. They are doing nothing but writing and cranking out prescription after prescription after prescription,&#8221; said DEA agent Gary Newman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/west-virginia-allows-painkiller-addicts-to-sue-doctors-who-got-them-hooked\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two million Americans are hooked on prescription painkillers. In 2012, 259 million prescriptions were written &#8212; that&#8217;s one bottle for every American adult. CBS News went to West Virginia, a state that is attempting a drastic solution: allowing addicts<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52881\">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":[39,40,175,99,168,104,114,151,129,619,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-state-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52881","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=52881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}