{"id":12121,"date":"2018-10-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/25\/bill-to-fight-u-s-opioid-crisis-signed-into-law\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T16:01:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:01:39","slug":"bill-to-fight-u-s-opioid-crisis-signed-into-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/25\/bill-to-fight-u-s-opioid-crisis-signed-into-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill to Fight U.S. Opioid Crisis Signed Into Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Legislation expands treatment options, removes ban on Medicaid reimbursement at certain facilities<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Oct. 25, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A bipartisan bill meant to combat the United States&#8217; opioid abuse epidemic was signed into law Oct. 24 by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, which also covers other types of substance abuse, expands treatment options and removes a ban on Medicaid reimbursing residential treatment at certain facilities with more than 16 beds, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported. There is also $60 million earmarked for infants who are born drug-dependent and authorization for programs that place drug offenders into treatment instead of in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation also requires the U.S. Postal Service to screen international packages for fentanyl, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, nearly 48,000 people in the United States died of opioid overdoses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/1bb3281d521546a2aa34b237d6fd8cbb\" target=\"_new\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation expands treatment options, removes ban on Medicaid reimbursement at certain facilities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-12121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}