{"id":2273,"date":"2003-02-01T14:19:13","date_gmt":"2003-02-01T14:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2003-02-01T14:19:13","modified_gmt":"2003-02-01T14:19:13","slug":"mountains_moleh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2273","title":{"rendered":"Mountains? Molehills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every other year or so this story pops up.  What I find so amusing about it is that they seem to think of it as some new thing.  I remember kids joking about drinking too much cough syrup long long ago (<a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0083131\">Stripes<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Quotes?0083131\">anyone<\/a>?).  So now it seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/032\/metro\/Teens_abusing_cough_and_cold_remediesP.shtml\">Teens are abusing cough and cold remedies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At least 20 students in Brookline and Newton have been treated for what officials fear is a disturbing craze creeping into local high schools: getting high on name-brand, over-the-counter cough and cold medications. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>After years of looking out for students who abuse alcohol or illegal drugs, educators in some schools are now confronting teens who misuse substances sitting on store shelves &#8211; specifically, the cough syrup Robitussin and the cough and cold pills Coricidin HBP. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p \/>\n<p>Yup, kids are still drinking Robitussin to get high.  I wonder if they&#8217;ll ever stop.  Or if it will be the next big health threat&#8230; again.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Oh yeah, teenagers get drunk too. In case you didn&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every other year or so this story pops up. What I find so amusing about it is that they seem to think of it as some new thing. I remember kids joking about drinking too much cough syrup long long ago (Stripes anyone?). So now it seems that Teens are abusing cough and cold remedies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}