{"id":101520,"date":"2018-02-02T16:37:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T23:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/report-69-colorado-residents-prescribed-aid-in-dying-meds\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T16:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T23:37:59","slug":"report-69-colorado-residents-prescribed-aid-in-dying-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/report-69-colorado-residents-prescribed-aid-in-dying-meds\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: 69 Colorado residents prescribed aid-in-dying meds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- Missing image mapping. {\"id\":116621,\"url\":\"\/\/dur-cjweb.newscyclecloud.com\/storyimage\/CJ\/20180202\/NEWS02\/180209974\/AR\/0\/AR-180209974.jpg\",\"caption_title\":\"\",\"caption\":\"Susan Huschle, whose husband, Kurt, used the aid-in-dying law as a terminal cancer patient on July 16, 2017, looks through photos of her late husband. A state report says 69 Colorado residents were prescribed aid-in-dying medication last year.\",\"article_id\":83519,\"factbox_id\":null,\"photo_byline\":\"AAron Ontiveroz\/The Denver Post via AP file\",\"alt_text\":null,\"orientation_landscape\":true,\"in_article\":false,\"is_square\":false,\"gallery_id\":null,\"created_at\":\"2018-02-02T16:37:59.000-07:00\",\"updated_at\":\"2018-02-02T16:37:59.000-07:00\",\"width\":3600,\"height\":2400,\"order\":null,\"photo_sales\":false,\"special_report_id\":null,\"durango_coupon_id\":null,\"guid\":null,\"naviga_url\":null} --><\/p>\n<p>DENVER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c A state report says 69 Colorado residents were prescribed aid-in-dying medication during the first year of a law that gives terminally ill people the power to end their own life.<\/p>\n<p>The state Department of Public Health and Environment report released on Thursday says that of the 69 patients approved for the medication, only 50 actually filled their prescription.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Post reports that patients who were prescribed the medication had a median age of 75, with men accounting for 54 percent and women 46 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The primary diagnosis was cancer at 64 percent, with both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, and heart disease accounting for 10 percent each and respiratory diseases 9 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 actually filled prescription<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5735,6212],"tags":[255],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-state-nation-world","tag-death-and-dying"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101520"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}