{"id":2450,"date":"2018-04-17T18:56:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T22:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/palm-beach-county-opioid-epidemic-a-public-nuisance\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:26:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:26:18","slug":"palm-beach-county-opioid-epidemic-a-public-nuisance","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/whitepapers\/palm-beach-county-opioid-epidemic-a-public-nuisance\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Beach County: Opioid Epidemic A Public Nuisance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe purpose of the ordinance is to declare the opioid epidemic a public nuisance and to provide a mechanism for Palm Beach County to recover taxpayer\u2019s costs incurred as a result of this <a href=\"\/office-of-governmental-affairs-opioid-lawyers\/\">epidemic<\/a>,\u201d Palm Beach County Attorney Denise Nieman told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>The suit alleges that the costs of the epidemic have been steep and have touched on a variety of areas, including foster care, health care and law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the county set aside $3 million to combat the epidemic. Some of that money was to boost staffing at the county\u2019s Medical Examiner\u2019s Office, which has been deluged with work from overdose deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe purpose of the ordinance is to declare the opioid epidemic a public nuisance and to provide a mechanism for Palm Beach County to recover taxpayer\u2019s costs incurred as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":428,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[75,166],"whitepaper-source":[195],"class_list":["post-2450","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-opioids-litigation","whitepaper_category-florida-opioid-lawyers","whitepaper-source-palm-beach-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}