{"id":34123,"date":"2022-02-09T09:09:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T09:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=34123"},"modified":"2022-02-09T09:10:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T09:10:17","slug":"englands-growing-opioid-crisis-laid-bare-hospital-admissions-for-overdoses-have-soared-50-in-last-decade-costing-the-nhs-137million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/02\/09\/englands-growing-opioid-crisis-laid-bare-hospital-admissions-for-overdoses-have-soared-50-in-last-decade-costing-the-nhs-137million\/","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s growing opioid crisis laid bare: Hospital admissions for overdoses have soared 50% in last decade costing the NHS \u00a3137million"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22225\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/opioid-prevention-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/opioid-prevention-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/opioid-prevention-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/opioid-prevention-1-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/opioid-prevention-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/opioid-prevention-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/opioid-prevention-1-500x333.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hospitalisations for opioid overdoses have soared by 50 percent in a decade with fears Britain is now in the grip of a prescription painkiller addiction crisis.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-10473263\/Englands-admissions-opioid-use-soared-50pc-decade-costing-NHS-137million.html\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Hospitalisations for opioid overdoses have soared by 50 percent in a decade with fears Britain is now in the grip of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/opioid-prevention-1-scaled.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34125,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34123\/revisions\/34125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}