{"id":934,"date":"2018-03-26T15:18:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T13:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=934"},"modified":"2019-11-30T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T08:46:11","slug":"west-africas-opioid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"West Africa&#8217;s Opioid Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_1913.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_1913-1024x421.jpg\" alt=\"tramadol_togo\" width=\"560\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_1913-1024x421.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_1913-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/DSC_1913-768x315.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/2unZ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tramadol Takes Root in Togo<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/2unZ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Deutsche Welle\/World Link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US isn&#8217;t the only place grappling with an opioid crisis. In Togo and other West African countries, a cheap, addictive painkiller known as tramadol is also wreaking havoc. DW visits the capital, Lom\u00e9, to meet addicts who are struggling to kick the habit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/2unZ8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Listen to the radio piece here!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tramadol Takes Root in Togo Deutsche Welle\/World Link The US isn&#8217;t the only place grappling with an opioid crisis. In Togo and other West African countries, a cheap, addictive painkiller known as tramadol is also wreaking havoc. DW visits the capital, Lom\u00e9, to meet addicts who are struggling to kick the habit. Listen to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[125,173,174,175,176,177],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","tag-west-africa","tag-tramadol","tag-opioid","tag-togo","tag-lome","tag-opioid-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}