{"id":3693,"date":"2014-08-20T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2014-08-27T12:14:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T16:14:30","slug":"health-headlines-painkillers-making-people-too-disabled-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2014\/health-headlines-painkillers-making-people-too-disabled-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Headlines: Painkillers Making People Too Disabled to Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Bay News 9<\/em><\/strong> <span class=\"publication-divider\">- A<\/span>ccording to a new study by The Dartmouth Institute, which examined over 9 million prescription records of people receiving benefits because they're too disabled to work, \"Roughly 4 million Americans too disabled to work are prescribed heavy-duty painkillers, such as OxyContin, Vicodin, codeine and morphine\".\u00a0\"Almost half \u2014 over 40 percent \u2014 filled a prescription for opiates in a year, and one in five was filling six or more prescriptions per year,\" says Associate Professor of TDI Ellen Meara. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baynews9.com\/content\/news\/baynews9\/news\/article.html\/content\/news\/articles\/bn9\/2014\/8\/21\/health_headlines_pai.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Bay News 9<\/b><\/i> &#8211; According to a new study by The Dartmouth Institute, which examined over 9 million prescription records of people receiving benefits because they&#8217;re too disabled to work, &#8220;Roughly 4 million Americans too disabled to work are prescribed heavy-duty painkillers, such as OxyContin, Vicodin, codeine and morphine&#8221;. &#8220;Almost half \u2014 over 40 percent \u2014 filled a prescription for opiates in a year, and one in five was filling six or more prescriptions per year,&#8221; says Associate Professor of TDI Ellen Meara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3693","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-Xz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","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=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}