{"id":5051,"date":"2020-03-01T13:13:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T18:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2020-03-01T13:13:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T18:13:03","slug":"response-flanigan-arguments-against-prescription-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/03\/01\/response-flanigan-arguments-against-prescription-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"RESPONSE &#8211; Flanigan &#8220;Arguments Against Prescription Requirements&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">I thought Dr. Flanigan\u2019s article against prescription drug restriction was intriguing as she argued the importance of preserving and enabling self-medication.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I was surprised by her explanation of the paternalistic history of prescription drugs; that as individuals expected more coverage from the federal government, there were inherently more restrictions put in place that prevented self-medication.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Although there were efforts to relieve the system, like the Doctrine of Informed Consent (DIC), prescription drugs continued to be less accessible.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I understand and see the normative arguments from both medical practitioners and patients, and it would be interesting to see how a highly dependable system can shift to promote the right to self-medication, as Dr. Flanigan suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought Dr. Flanigan\u2019s article against prescription drug restriction was intriguing as she argued the importance of preserving and enabling self-medication.\u00a0 I was surprised by her explanation of the paternalistic history of prescription drugs; that as individuals expected more coverage from the federal government, there were inherently more restrictions put in place that prevented self-medication.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}