{"id":4642,"date":"2021-09-01T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4642"},"modified":"2021-09-01T13:54:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:54:26","slug":"a-program-tried-to-cut-opioid-addiction-among-veterans-did-it-cause-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/09\/01\/a-program-tried-to-cut-opioid-addiction-among-veterans-did-it-cause-suicides\/","title":{"rendered":"A program tried to cut opioid addiction among veterans. Did it cause suicides?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the paywall on the Washington Post is this article from August 24,2021:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2021\/08\/24\/opioids-veterans-suicides-interventions-safety\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A program tried to cut opioid addiction among veterans. Did it cause suicides?<\/a><br \/>\nBy Benjamin Cowan and Joshua Tibbitts<br \/>\nBenjamin Cowan is associate professor of economics at Washington State University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Joshua Tibbitts is an assistant professor in the department of economics at Brigham Young University, Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I missed it as I scan the Post everyday and dive into subjects like this. <\/p>\n<p>The byline: &#8220;The aggressive Opioid Safety Initiative may have had unintended consequences&#8221; sums up my personal experience with this program. Enough said, it wasn&#8217;t pleasant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the paywall on the Washington Post is this article from August 24,2021:A program tried to cut opioid addiction among veterans. Did it cause suicides? By Benjamin Cowan and Joshua Tibbitts Benjamin Cowan is associate professor of economics at Washington State University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Joshua Tibbitts &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/09\/01\/a-program-tried-to-cut-opioid-addiction-among-veterans-did-it-cause-suicides\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,17],"tags":[3611,3612,1242,3610,3613,3609],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4642","6":"format-standard","7":"category-faits-divers","8":"category-politics","9":"category-thinking-about","10":"post_tag-addiction","11":"post_tag-opioid-safety-initiative","12":"post_tag-opioids","13":"post_tag-suicides","14":"post_tag-va","15":"post_tag-veterans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4645,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions\/4645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}