{"id":1761,"date":"2018-07-11T22:04:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T22:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2018-07-11T22:06:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T22:06:48","slug":"drug-addiction-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1761","title":{"rendered":"drug addiction epidemic&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing to catch up on last couple months&#8230;\u00a0 I interviewed some pharmacy students from nearby Ohio Northern University.\u00a0 They are going about the county trying to raise awareness about the opioid epidemic currently sweeping the country.\u00a0 [They are calling their initiative NADA, Northern Against Drug Addiction.] One of the students said some 160 Americans die of opioid overdoses every day now.\u00a0 <strong>He said that would be like a full airliner going down in America every day<\/strong>.\u00a0 [See two entries back for a similar analogy to another societal problem.]\u00a0 \u00a0Our administration would take drug addiction, across the board, <em>very<\/em> seriously.\u00a0 And we would come at it from a <em>very<\/em> comprehensive, multi-dimensional approach.\u00a0 Alcoholism\/drug addiction is at the root of a majority of crime in America, a lot of the domestic violence and broken homes, a good deal of drunk and drug affected driving accidents, overdose deaths&#8230;\u00a0 I was an addictions counselor for a number of years, and I believe I have a good take on the root causes and treatment modalities, etc., needed to reverse a lot of this.\u00a0 For more on our approach, listen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/joe-the-counselor\">to&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing to catch up on last couple months&#8230;\u00a0 I interviewed some pharmacy students from nearby Ohio Northern University.\u00a0 They are going about the county trying to raise awareness about the opioid epidemic currently sweeping the country.\u00a0 [They are calling their <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1761\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}