{"id":6198,"date":"2017-10-16T18:59:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T00:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=6198"},"modified":"2017-10-16T19:02:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T01:02:14","slug":"the-ethics-of-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/the-ethics-of-addiction-6198.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Ethics of Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drug companies have been busy pushing opioids and doctors think that every pain should be treated with narcotics. When I fractured my foot, Urgent Care offered me Oxycontin. I said ibuprofen was sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>In the nineteenth century patent medicines were\u00a0 full of unadmitted ingredients, contributing to a massive problem with drug addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, on that same Frederick <i>News\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0page of June 1,1895, I noticed this ad, I was suspicious:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dr-Fahrmey.png\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[6198]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6199\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dr-Fahrmey.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dr-Fahrmey.png 744w, http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dr-Fahrmey-300x83.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, a quick Internet search revealed what was calming the babies so quickly: morphine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dr-Fahrnets-fine.png\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[6198]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dr-Fahrnets-fine.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dr-Fahrnets-fine.png 571w, http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dr-Fahrnets-fine-268x300.png 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6198\" data-postid=\"6198\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6198 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug companies have been busy pushing opioids and doctors think that every pain should be treated with narcotics. When I fractured my foot, Urgent Care offered me Oxycontin. I said ibuprofen was sufficient. In the nineteenth century patent medicines were\u00a0 full of unadmitted ingredients, contributing to a massive problem with drug addiction. Therefore, on that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6203,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions\/6203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}