{"id":5257,"date":"2011-12-29T08:10:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T13:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2011-12-29T09:53:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T14:53:23","slug":"morning-read-prescription-drug-abuse-on-the-rise-regionally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/12\/29\/morning-read-prescription-drug-abuse-on-the-rise-regionally\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: prescription drug abuse on the rise regionally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More and more people across northern New York and Vermont are addicted to prescription drugs like\u00a0OxyContin and Fentanyl. They&#8217;re opiates,and abuse of these drugs is tied to a rise in crime. Saranac Lake village police chief Bruce Nelson told the <a href=\"Adirondack Daily Enterprise\">Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a> that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;prescription drug abuse has been a factor in 27 percent of the arrests [by Saranac Lake village police] so far this year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;It\u2019s grown so fast it\u2019s like you\u2019re in a tidal wave,&#8217; Shumlin aide Susan Bartlett told the <a href=\"Burlington Free Press\">Burlington Free Press<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Addicts often &#8220;doctor-shop,&#8221; going to different medical care providers and feigning symptoms so they can get drugs to support their habit. Prescription drugs are also sold on the street.<\/p>\n<p>In Vermont, Governor Peter Shumlin&#8217;s administration is trying to come up with a plan to curb opiate abuse. One part of that plan may include giving police access to the state Health Department&#8217;s prescription drug monitoring network, which is right now only available to medical providers and the Health Department. What do you think? Should patients&#8217; privacy be protected, or should the police be able to monitor and track controlled substances? And has prescription drug abuse had an effect on your community?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more people across northern New York and Vermont are addicted to prescription drugs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4872,4803],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions\/5259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}