{"id":1018,"date":"2009-04-01T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/04\/01\/huh\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T22:27:00","slug":"huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/04\/01\/huh\/","title":{"rendered":"Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2009\/03\/prescription_drugs_top_oregon.html\">this article<\/a> in The Oregonian today.  See if you can see my problem with it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the third paragraph of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2008, there were 131 overdose deaths from methadone, and another 39 involving <span>oxycodone<\/span>. That compares with 119 heroin-related deaths, 106 methamphetamine-related, 51 cocaine-related and 46 deaths resulting from a combination of these drugs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m that kind of girl, before I read the article I added up the numbers:<br \/>Prescription drug deaths:  131 + 39 = 170<br \/>Illicit drug deaths: 119 + 106 +51 + 46 = 322<\/p>\n<p>Of course, more than one drug could be implicated in a single death.  Just adding up the numbers might not give the true picture.<\/p>\n<p>Looking a little further, I found this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The state statistics show 229 people died from the illicit drugs of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine or a combination of them in 2008<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s no mention of the total deaths from prescription drugs, but the above paragraph does match the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/OSP\/NEWSRL\/news\/04_01_2009_drug_deaths_2008.shtml\">state statistics<\/a>.  The state press release also confirms something like 170 total deaths from methadone and <span>oxycodone<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s imagine that the lady who wrote the article is shopping for an <span>iPod<\/span>, and she sees two identical units.  Would she buy the one for $229 because it&#8217;s cheaper than the one for $170?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it a joke and I just don&#8217;t get it?<\/p>\n<p>Today is April Fool&#8217;s Day, after all&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this article in The Oregonian today. See if you can see my problem with it. Here&#8217;s the third paragraph of the article: In 2008, there were 131 overdose deaths from methadone, and another 39 involving oxycodone. That compares&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deeann"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}