{"id":453938,"date":"2018-03-19T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=71dc402e85406a4c14b8ef43b29c317e"},"modified":"2018-03-19T05:27:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T09:27:00","slug":"identifying-designer-drugs-taken-by-overdose-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=453938","title":{"rendered":"Identifying &#8216;designer&#8217; drugs taken by overdose patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drug overdoses are taking a huge toll on public health, with potent synthetic drugs posing a particular threat. Medical professionals are scrambling to meet the growing demand for emergency room treatment, but they&#8217;re hampered by the lack of a quick and easy test to screen patients for these &#8220;designer&#8221; drugs. Chemists have now developed such a test and are refining it with the hope that hospitals could eventually use it to choose the appropriate treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug overdoses are taking a huge toll on public health, with potent synthetic drugs posing a particular threat. Medical professionals are scrambling to meet the growing demand for emergency room treatment, but they&#8217;re hampered by the lack of a quick an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453939,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453938\/revisions\/453939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}