{"id":1929991,"date":"2026-08-28T03:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T07:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929991"},"modified":"2026-08-28T04:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:54:06","slug":"key-takeaways-about-pain-specialist-to-star-athletes-accused-of-issuing-illegal-opioid-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929991","title":{"rendered":"Key takeaways about pain specialist to star athletes accused of issuing illegal opioid prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Rubinger, a nurse practitioner, built a sports medicine practice treating top athletes. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration alleges she wrote illegal prescriptions for painkillers to clients in over 20 states. The DEA last month revoked her authority to prescribe controlled substances, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/9d556-key-takeaways-about-pain-specialist-to-star-athletes-accused-of-issuing-illegal-opioid-prescriptions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Rubinger, a nurse practitioner, built a sports medicine practice treating top athletes. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration alleges she wrote illegal prescriptions for painkillers to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1929992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1929991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929993,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929991\/revisions\/1929993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}