{"id":3062,"date":"2023-01-01T05:12:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2023-03-14T03:04:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T08:04:32","slug":"2022-was-a-deadly-but-hopeful-year-in-americas-opioid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3062","title":{"rendered":"<strong>2022 was a deadly (but hopeful) year in America\u2019s opioid crisis<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the history of America\u2019s long, devastating opioid crisis is finally written, 2022 may be remembered as both a low point and a turning point.<br \/>\nData from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests the avalanche of overdose deaths \u2014 driven largely by the spread of illicit fentanyl \u2014 may have crested in March.<br \/>\nResearchers found\u00a0a staggering 110,236 people died\u00a0in a single 12-month period, a stunning new record.<br \/>\nBut there are signs help may finally be on the way.<br \/>\nThe avalanche of drug deaths spurred a series of major reforms in 2022 to the way drug addiction is treated in the U.S., changes designed to reduce stigma and improve access to care.<br \/>\n2022 was also a year of corporate accountability.<br \/>\nMajor drug companies, distributors and pharmacy chains reached settlements of opioid lawsuits filed by state and local governments totaling more than $50 billion.<br \/>\nExperts say that money, paid out over the next two decades, will fund treatment programs and other services that are desperately needed, especially in poor rural towns and urban neighborhoods.<br \/>\nHere are the major developments in 2022 that made it a pivotal year for the overdose epidemic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/12\/31\/1145797684\/2022-was-a-deadly-but-hopeful-year-in-americas-opioid-crisis\">Opb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the history of America\u2019s long, devastating opioid crisis is finally written, 2022 may be remembered as both a low point and a turning point. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests the avalanche of overdose deaths \u2014 driven largely by the spread of illicit fentanyl \u2014 may have crested in March. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3277,1728,3279,2617,3278,3280,1198,1100],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-chain-drug-stores","tag-fentanyl","tag-heroin","tag-opioids","tag-pharmaceutical-companies","tag-street-drugs","tag-america","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7443,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/7443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}