{"id":1609,"date":"2008-07-29T02:28:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T08:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattstooks.com\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2008-07-29T02:28:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T08:28:50","slug":"lets-overmedicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s overmedicate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/HEALTH\/07\/28\/fatal.drug.errors.ap\/index.html?iref=hpmostpop\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>: A 700 percent increase in Heath Ledger disease.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deaths from medication mistakes at home, such as actor Heath Ledger&#8217;s accidental overdose, rose dramatically during the past two decades, an analysis of U.S. death certificates finds.<\/p>\n<p>The authors blame soaring home use of prescription painkillers and other potent drugs, which 25 years ago were given mainly inside hospitals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The next president will sign some sort of healthcare reform.\u00a0 It should include something to fight our addiction to pharmaceuticals.\u00a0 Prescription drugs are worse than street drugs in many cases.\u00a0 If nothing else, shouldn&#8217;t we speak out against rich, white guys getting high with a doctor&#8217;s blessing, while everyone else gets arrested for it?<\/p>\n<p>Smoke a joint and think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN: A 700 percent increase in Heath Ledger disease. Deaths from medication mistakes at home, such as actor Heath Ledger&#8217;s accidental overdose, rose dramatically during the past two decades, an analysis of U.S. death certificates finds. The authors blame soaring home use of prescription painkillers and other potent drugs, which 25 years ago were given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[89,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-politics"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4pzeu-pX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}