{"id":7668,"date":"2016-08-01T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/08\/01\/patients-seek-out-alternatives-to-opioids-in-treatment-of-chronic-pain\/"},"modified":"2016-08-01T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T20:27:00","slug":"patients-seek-out-alternatives-to-opioids-in-treatment-of-chronic-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/patients-seek-out-alternatives-to-opioids-in-treatment-of-chronic-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients Seek Out Alternatives To Opioids In Treatment Of Chronic Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/01\/488269407\/patients-seek-out-alternatives-to-opioids-in-treatment-of-chronic-pain?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare\">Naomi Gingold<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Opioids are often considered mandatory for treatment of chronic pain, but many patients would prefer an alternative. Doctors say those alternatives may also work better in some cases.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/01\/488269407\/patients-seek-out-alternatives-to-opioids-in-treatment-of-chronic-pain?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Patients Seek Out Alternatives To Opioids In Treatment Of Chronic Pain\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/01\/488269407\/patients-seek-out-alternatives-to-opioids-in-treatment-of-chronic-pain?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opioids are often considered mandatory for treatment of chronic pain, but many patients would prefer an alternative. Doctors say those alternatives may also work better in some cases.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}