{"id":3622,"date":"2014-08-16T16:43:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T20:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2014-08-21T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T15:54:17","slug":"millions-with-disabilities-get-heavy-duty-painkillers-in-potentially-fatal-doses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2014\/millions-with-disabilities-get-heavy-duty-painkillers-in-potentially-fatal-doses\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions With Disabilities Get Heavy-duty Painkillers in Potentially Fatal Doses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Detroit Free Press<\/em> <\/strong><span class=\"publication-divider\">- <\/span>Features a new Dartmouth study that examined the painkillers prescribed to Americans who are too disabled to work. \"Almost half - over 40% - filled a prescription for opiates in a year and one in five was filling six or more prescriptions per year,\" says Ellen Meara, an associate professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20140816\/FEATURES08\/308160061\/disabled-painkillers-dangers-overdoses\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Detroit Free Press<\/b><\/i> &#8211; Features a new Dartmouth study that examined the painkillers prescribed to Americans who are too disabled to work. &#8220;Almost half &#8211; over 40% &#8211; filled a prescription for opiates in a year and one in five was filling six or more prescriptions per year,&#8221; says Ellen Meara, an associate professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-Wq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}