{"id":54253,"date":"2016-05-03T14:30:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T14:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/painkiller_epidemic_nearly_half_of_americans_know_an_addict\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T14:30:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T14:30:43","slug":"painkiller_epidemic_nearly_half_of_americans_know_an_addict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54253","title":{"rendered":"Painkiller epidemic: Nearly half of Americans know an addict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half of all Americans personally know someone who has been addicted to prescription painkillers \u201d\u201d and most people feel the federal government isn&#8217;t doing enough to stem a growing epidemic of opioid addiction, a new survey shows.<\/p>\n<p>The survey released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation also found that a large majority of Americans believe that lack of access to care for people suffering from substance abuse is a problem in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The findings come as abuse of opioids \u201d\u201d including prescription painkillers and the illegal drug heroin \u201d\u201d has significantly increased in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2016\/05\/02\/painkiller-epidemic-nearly-half-of-americans-know-an-addict.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost half of all Americans personally know someone who has been addicted to prescription painkillers \u201d\u201d and most people feel the federal government isn&#8217;t doing enough to stem a growing epidemic of opioid addiction, a new survey shows. The survey<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54253\">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":[39,50,209,99,168,104,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54253","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=54253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}