{"id":115,"date":"2006-03-26T21:42:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T21:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/take_two_and_lo\/"},"modified":"2006-03-26T21:42:50","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T21:42:50","slug":"take_two_and_lo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/mind-brain\/take_two_and_lo\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Two and Love Me in the Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=181,height=144,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/happy_pill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"79\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/happy_pill.jpg\" title=\"Happy_pill\" alt=\"Happy_pill\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>Psychologist and writer Lauren Slater published an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/03\/19\/opinion\/19slater.html?ex=1300424400&amp;en=3079b794337ff4e5&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">essay<\/a> in the <em>Times<\/em> a few days ago with a warning to psychotropic pill poppers: &quot;Buyer beware.&quot; Hype followed by disappointment fills the historical landscape of pharmaceutical wonderdrugs, from chlorpromazine to Ambien. She notes: &quot;I&#8217;m surprised we haven&#8217;t yet created chemical cures for those mourning their chemical cures.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but dear Lauren, we have! On March 6, <em>The Onion<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/46032\">reported<\/a>: &quot;The Food and Drug Administration today approved the sale of the drug PharmAmorin, a prescription tablet developed by Pfizer to treat chronic distrust of large prescription-drug manufacturers.&quot; Side effects include &quot;ignoring the side effects of prescription drug medication.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Snarky aside: Slater is a great writer, and I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;s a great psychologist, but I&#8217;m glad she&#8217;s not a psychiatrist. She writes, &quot;I like the idea that human hope has a half-life of about 10 years and is fully excreted in two decades&quot;. I like the idea of a doctor who understands what half-life means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychologist and writer Lauren Slater published an essay in the Times a few days ago with a warning to psychotropic pill poppers: &quot;Buyer beware.&quot; Hype followed by disappointment fills the historical landscape of pharmaceutical wonderdrugs, from chlorpromazine to Ambien. She notes: &quot;I&#8217;m surprised we haven&#8217;t yet created chemical cures for those mourning their chemical cures.&quot; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-brain","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}