{"id":973,"date":"2018-05-18T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=973"},"modified":"2019-11-30T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T08:45:32","slug":"tramadol-africas-opioid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/?p=973","title":{"rendered":"Tramadol: Africa&#8217;s opioid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_7272-e1526649500236.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_7272-e1526649500236.png\" alt=\"tramadol_togo\" width=\"560\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(18)31073-0\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lancet<\/a><br \/>\npublished 19 May 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"role-introduction\">Away from the headlines, another opioid abuse crisis is hitting Africa. Experts express concern about the rise in non-medical use of the analgesic. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt reports from Lom\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is not yet 10 AM and the sun is beating down on the corrugated iron roof of Lucien&#8217;s tiny repair shop in a sandy street of Lom\u00e9, the capital of Togo. The 28-year-old is busy fixing a motorbike for one of his customers. When he woke up this morning, he was too weak to fetch water for a shower. So Lucien took three tramadol capsules, a synthetic opioid painkiller. It has been his morning routine for the past 5 years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(18)31073-0\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To read the full story go to The Lancet!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lancet published 19 May 2018 Away from the headlines, another opioid abuse crisis is hitting Africa. Experts express concern about the rise in non-medical use of the analgesic. Laura Salm-Reifferscheidt reports from Lom\u00e9. It is not yet 10 AM and the sun is beating down on the corrugated iron roof of Lucien&#8217;s tiny repair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[68,173,183,184,187,188,189,190,191,192],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973"}],"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=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurasalm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}