{"id":2584,"date":"2017-10-19T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2017-10-20T11:21:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:21:01","slug":"understanding-the-opioid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/2017\/10\/19\/understanding-the-opioid-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Opioid Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2586\" alt=\"91Americans\" src=\"\/nephtc\/files\/2017\/10\/91Americans.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/files\/2017\/10\/91Americans.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/files\/2017\/10\/91Americans-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/files\/2017\/10\/91Americans-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From 2000 to 2015 over 500,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, more than half of which involved an opioid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/drugoverdose\/epidemic\/index.html\">Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We thank our sister training center the Mid Atlantic Public Health Training Center for creating this inventory of materials for public health professionals.<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/marphtc.pitt.edu\/marphtc-opioids-training.asp\">Trainings<\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/nephtc\/files\/2017\/10\/MARPHTC-Opioid-Training-Resources-October-2017.xlsx\">MARPHTC Opioid Training Resources October 2017<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/marphtc.pitt.edu\/marphtc-hot-topics-opioid-webcast.asp\">Webcasts<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/marphtc.pitt.edu\/marphtc-hot-topics-opioid-resources.asp\">Resources<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>According to NNPHI, the President is expected to formally <a href=\"https:\/\/nnphi.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=239198fe40d064f8b332c8c13&amp;id=434688d4ef&amp;e=31baf63915\">declare the opioid epidemic as a public health emergency<\/a> next week, following his stated intent to do so back in August. At the same time,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nnphi.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=239198fe40d064f8b332c8c13&amp;id=668ef0febe&amp;e=31baf63915\">some controversy has emerged<\/a>\u00a0over his nomination to run the Office of National Drug Control Policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2000 to 2015 over 500,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, more than half of which involved an opioid. Learn More We thank our sister training center the Mid Atlantic Public Health Training Center for creating this inventory of materials for public health professionals. Trainings MARPHTC Opioid Training Resources October 2017 Webcasts Resources According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}