{"id":57315,"date":"2017-02-06T21:32:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T21:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ladn_heroin_use_fuels_surge_of_er_visits_among_california_millennials\/"},"modified":"2017-02-06T21:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T21:32:01","slug":"ladn_heroin_use_fuels_surge_of_er_visits_among_california_millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57315","title":{"rendered":"(LADN) Heroin use fuels surge of ER visits among California millennials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California\u2019s millennials continue to flood hospital emergency departments because of heroin, a trend that has increased steadily statewide and in Los Angeles and Orange counties over the past five years, according to the latest figures.<\/p>\n<p>The state data released last week show that in the first three months of 2016, 412 adults age 20 to 29 went to emergency departments due to heroin. That\u2019s double the number for the same time period in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, emergency department visits among heroin users of all ages increased, but the sharpest was among the state\u2019s young adults. About 1,500 emergency department visits by California\u2019s millennials poisoned by heroin were logged in 2015 compared with fewer than 1,000 in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynews.com\/health\/20170204\/heroin-use-fuels-surge-of-er-visits-among-california-millennials\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California\u2019s millennials continue to flood hospital emergency departments because of heroin, a trend that has increased steadily statewide and in Los Angeles and Orange counties over the past five years, according to the latest figures. The state data released last<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57315\">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":[39,50,209,175,99,168,104,177,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57315","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=57315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}