{"id":1432,"date":"2007-03-25T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2007-03-25T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-25T07:22:00","slug":"on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"On Drugs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Having lived the first few years of my life in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtalvernia-hospital.org\/\">hospital<\/a> and having a GP for at father, I have always been dismayed by the plain randomness of the attitude in society towards drugs (and to me <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aspirin\">aspirin<\/a> counts as a drug). Living in this environment I have always had a healthy appreciation for only taking drugs when really necessary and have seen first hand some of the side effects of various drugs (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thalidomide\">Thalidomide<\/a>). This site probably describes better than I can what I think the approach to drugs should be:<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/6474053.stm?lsm\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\"> The drug classification system in the UK is not &#8220;fit for purpose&#8221; and should be scrapped, scientists have said.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the moment I am taking <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asprin\">Aspirin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Micardis\">Telmisartan<\/a> for high blood pressure and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simvastatin\">Simvastatin<\/a> to control my hypercholesterolemia.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having lived the first few years of my life in a hospital and having a GP for at father, I[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}