{"id":3479,"date":"2010-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/uncomfortably-numb\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T17:07:55","slug":"uncomfortably-numb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/01\/uncomfortably-numb\/","title":{"rendered":"UNCOMFORTABLY NUMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The underground tunnels between Egypt and Gaza may be a lifeline for those trapped inside the blockaded Strip, but along with the clothes, furniture and food that make their way through the tunnels, a dangerous drug &#8211; Tramadol &#8211; is also slipping through.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tramal, as it is known in Gaza, is a dangerously addictive painkiller which is illegal without a prescription, but a growing number of Gazans are getting hooked on it.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s siege has cut Gazans off from the outside world and made hundreds of thousands of them jobless.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty per cent of the population are now dependent on some form of UN handouts.<\/p>\n<p>As the people of Gaza slip deeper into poverty, they are increasingly succumbing to drug abuse, according to doctors in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities say that the number of drug-related arrests in Gaza have more than doubled in the past year, despite the Hamas regime&#8217;s strict narcotics controls.<\/p>\n<p><em>Uncomfortably Numb <\/em>talks to some of those addicts, those who are trying to help them and the authorities seeking to crack down on drug abuse.<\/p>\n<p><em>23:26-Min YouTube Video<br \/><\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/programmes\/general\/2010\/01\/201011894620263921.html\" ><br \/>CLICK TO VIEW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The underground tunnels between Egypt and Gaza may be a lifeline for those trapped inside the blockaded Strip, but along with the clothes, furniture and food that make their way through the tunnels, a dangerous drug &#8211; Tramadol &#8211; is also slipping through. Tramal, as it is known in Gaza, is a dangerously addictive painkiller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}