{"id":2633,"date":"2024-01-28T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T13:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/28\/i-dont-see-how-it-ends-expert-sounds-alarm-on-new-wave-of-us-opioids-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T13:03:42","slug":"i-dont-see-how-it-ends-expert-sounds-alarm-on-new-wave-of-us-opioids-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/28\/i-dont-see-how-it-ends-expert-sounds-alarm-on-new-wave-of-us-opioids-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I don\u2019t see how it ends\u2019: expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Art Van Zee set out in the early 2000s to tell anyone who would listen how a powerful opioid was destroying lives. Two decades later, he\u2019s still in disbelief<\/p>\n<p>When Dr Art Van Zee finally understood the scale of the disaster looming over his corner of rural Virginia, he naively imagined the drug industry would be just as alarmed.<\/p>\n<p>So the longest serving doctor in the struggling former mining town of St Charles set out in the early 2000s to tell pharmaceutical executives, federal regulators, Congress and anyone else who would listen that the arrival of a powerful new opioid painkiller was destroying lives and families, and laying the ground for a much bigger catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/28\/us-opioids-crisis-fentanyl-appalachia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Art Van Zee set out in the early 2000s to tell anyone who would listen how a powerful opioid was destroying lives. Two decades later, he\u2019s still in disbelief When Dr Art Van Zee finally understood the scale of the disaster looming over his corner of rural Virginia, he naively imagined the drug industry &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018I don\u2019t see how it ends\u2019: expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/28\/i-dont-see-how-it-ends-expert-sounds-alarm-on-new-wave-of-us-opioids-crisis\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018I don\u2019t see how it ends\u2019: expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}