{"id":15806,"date":"2002-06-27T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/27\/brazil-is-starting-to-package-medicine-as-candy\/"},"modified":"2002-06-27T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-27T20:00:00","slug":"brazil-is-starting-to-package-medicine-as-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/27\/brazil-is-starting-to-package-medicine-as-candy\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil is starting to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/medtech\/0,1286,53143,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">package  medicine as candy<\/a> so that children that have trouble swallowing pills or are just stubborn will be more likely to take it.  I just see this as a gigantic accident waiting to happen; the first time some child OD&rsquo;s on &ldquo;candy&rdquo; we&rsquo;ll hear about this.  In fact, as usual this reminds me of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snpp.com\/episodes\/2F06.html\" target=\"_blank\">Simpsons  episode<\/a>: they  went  to  a  candy  convention and the sign outside read &ldquo;Welcome Candy Convention Room 1!       Also Candy-Shaped Rat Poison Convention Room 11.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-78281789?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil is starting to package medicine as candy so that children that have trouble swallowing pills or are just stubborn will be more likely to take it. I just see this as a gigantic accident waiting to happen; the first time some child OD&rsquo;s on &ldquo;candy&rdquo; we&rsquo;ll hear about this. In fact, as usual this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/27\/brazil-is-starting-to-package-medicine-as-candy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}