{"id":2576,"date":"2025-07-20T03:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/when-the-system-fails-why-autistic-people-turn-to-street-drugs-for-medicine\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T03:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:04:04","slug":"when-the-system-fails-why-autistic-people-turn-to-street-drugs-for-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/when-the-system-fails-why-autistic-people-turn-to-street-drugs-for-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"When the System Fails: Why Autistic People Turn to Street Drugs for Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cannabis.net\/drive\/1000\/3743_6s3E_streetdrugsforautism1.jpg?width=200&amp;height=200\"><\/p>\n<p>While autistic people are generally less likely to use recreational substances than the general population, those who do use drugs are nine times more likely to be self-medicating for autism-related symptoms and mental health conditions. This isn&#8217;t a story about drug abuse &#8211; it&#8217;s a story about medical abandonment and the predictable consequences of leaving vulnerable populations to fend for themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While autistic people are generally less likely to use recreational substances than the general population, those who do use drugs are nine times more likely to be self-medicating for autism-related symptoms and mental health conditions. This isn&#8217;t a story about drug abuse &#8211; it&#8217;s a story about medical abandonment and the predictable consequences of leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}