{"id":12929,"date":"2017-01-02T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=12929"},"modified":"2017-02-21T13:33:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T13:33:01","slug":"synthetic-opioid-known-as-pink-is-legal-in-most-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2017\/01\/synthetic-opioid-known-as-pink-is-legal-in-most-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic Opioid Known as \u201cPink\u201d Is Legal in Most States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A synthetic opioid known as \u201cpink\u201d is legal in most states, even though it is almost eight times stronger than morphine, CNN reports.<\/p>\n<p>The drug, also known as U-47700, is responsible for dozens of deaths nationwide, the article notes. Adam Kline, Police Chief of White Lake, Michigan, told CNN the drug can be legally purchased on the \u201cdark web\u201d in the form of a powder, pill or nasal spray. Last month, the Drug Enforcement Administration told NBC News it is aware of confirmed deaths associated with the drug in New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin. The drug, along with other synthetic opioids, is being shipped into the United States from China and other countries.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0 thepartnership@drugfree.org\u00a0 2nd Nov.\u00a0 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A synthetic opioid known as \u201cpink\u201d is legal in most states, even though it is almost eight times stronger than morphine, CNN reports. The drug, also known as U-47700, is responsible for dozens of deaths nationwide, the article notes. Adam Kline, Police Chief of White Lake, Michigan, told CNN the drug can be legally purchased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-specifics","category-heroin-methadone","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}