{"id":169374,"date":"2023-08-10T00:24:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T05:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/fentanyls-deathly-grip-on-america-causes-1500-deaths-a-week"},"modified":"2023-08-10T00:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T05:24:06","slug":"fentanyls-deathly-grip-on-america-causes-1500-deaths-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/fentanyls-deathly-grip-on-america-causes-1500-deaths-a-week","title":{"rendered":"Fentanyl\u2019s deathly grip on America causes 1,500 deaths a week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2023\/01\/19\/4738686372719276342\/1024x576_MP4_4738686372719276342.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>This is a major crisis in America and most likely globally now.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The US is in the midst of a catastrophic fentanyl epidemic that is causing an eye-watering number of deaths and tearing the fabric of American society apart.<\/p>\n<p>The ultra-strong opioid being cut with virtually every street drug in the country killed a record 75,000 Americans in 2021, the equivalent of 1,500 lives lost every week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a major crisis in America and most likely globally now. The US is in the midst of a catastrophic fentanyl epidemic that is causing an eye-watering number of deaths and tearing the fabric of American society apart. The ultra-strong opioid being cut with virtually every street drug in the country killed a record [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}