{"id":1044641,"date":"2026-10-19T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044641"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:57:33","slug":"technical-gaps-cripple-biometric-system-at-punjabs-opioid-treatment-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/19\/technical-gaps-cripple-biometric-system-at-punjabs-opioid-treatment-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Technical gaps cripple biometric system at Punjab\u2019s opioid treatment centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolled out over a year ago to verify patients\u2019 identities and curb the pilferage of buprenorphine tablets, the biometric attendance system at Outpatient Opioid-Assisted Treatment (OOAT) centres in Punjab is still battling teething problems in the absence of basic technical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Buprenorphine is a partial opioid agonist medicine distributed at over 540 OOAT centres to treat opioid dependence among drug addicts by suppressing cravings and preventing withdrawal symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolled out over a year ago to verify patients\u2019 identities and curb the pilferage of buprenorphine tablets, the biometric attendance system at Outpatient Opioid-Assisted Treatment (OOAT) centres in Punjab is still battling teething problems in the absence of basic technical infrastructure. Buprenorphine is a partial opioid agonist medicine distributed at over 540 OOAT centres to treat opioid dependence among drug addicts by suppressing cravings and preventing withdrawal symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044642,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044641\/revisions\/1044642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}