{"id":8401,"date":"2018-05-03T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=88e033170e1fa615975b2cc07bfed104"},"modified":"2018-05-03T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:50:14","slug":"sask-nurses-want-prescribing-power-to-tackle-opioid-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/03\/sask-nurses-want-prescribing-power-to-tackle-opioid-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Sask. nurses want prescribing power to tackle opioid addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src='https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.4212667.1500488808!\/cpImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_460\/opioid-treatment-georgia.jpg' alt='Opioid Treatment Georgia' width='460' title='In this March 7, 2017 photo, Paul \"Rip\" Connell, CEO of Private Clinic North, a methadone clinic, shows a 35 mg liquid dose of methadone at the clinic in Rossville, Ga. In the northwest corner of Georgia, where cows and crops vastly outnumber people, a small cluster of privately owned treatment centers have sprung up in recent years for heroin and prescription painkiller addicts. Methadone has been used to treat opioid addiction for 40 years and is the cheapest option. (AP Photo\/Kevin D. Liles)' height='259' \/>                <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Saskatchewan registered nurses will vote on proposed bylaw changes that would allow nurse practioners to prescribe opioid substitution therapies, like methadone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                                        On Thursday, Saskatchewan registered nurses will vote on proposed bylaw changes that would allow nurse practioners to prescribe opioid substitution therapies, like methadone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8402,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401\/revisions\/8402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}