{"id":166061,"date":"2013-09-14T00:11:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T00:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2013\/09\/14\/steven-tyler-doctors-are-drug-dealers\/"},"modified":"2013-09-14T00:11:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T00:11:51","slug":"steven-tyler-doctors-are-drug-dealers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2013\/09\/14\/steven-tyler-doctors-are-drug-dealers\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Tyler: Doctors are drug dealers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/CCJANTJZHXMJIEEEJWET.jpg>Steven Tyler compares doctors to drug dealers. The outspoken Aerosmith frontman claims irresponsible doctors who are too ready to give out prescription drugs are more damaging than \u201cshady\u201d street dealers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about his long-term battle with drug addiction on the \u2018Dr.Oz Show\u2019 earlier this week he said: \u201cY\u2019know who the new dealers are? They\u2019re doctors. <\/p>\n<p>The dealers aren\u2019t on the street. It\u2019s not a shady guy on the street. Y\u2019know how many doctors I\u2019ve gone to and said, \u2018I\u2019m in a 12-step program, I\u2019ve been sober for &#8230; \u2018 He goes, \u2018Ah, good for you!\u2019 On the way out he says, \u2018You need something to sleep tonight?\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m trying to tell him that I can\u2019t take anything that\u2019s mood altering, because if I do, I like to ride it.\u201d<br \/>\nThe 65-year-old rocker infamously battled a addiction to heroin, which landed him in rehab in 1986 before another stint in 2009 to treat an addiction to painkillers, but he claims all humans are prone to addictive behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Steven reasoned: \u201cWe all do, right? You get on a water ski, you wanna go again next week. Kiss her &#8211; I wanna do it again! It\u2019s \u2018euphoric recall,\u2019 it\u2019s not so odd. It\u2019s what humans &#8211; y\u2019know, we\u2019re all touchy-feely. Even those that say that they\u2019re not and men that don\u2019t cry, they still want to be touched by their mothers.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Tyler has penned the foreword for new book \u2018Being Sober\u2019 which aims to help addicts in their recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Tyler compares doctors to drug dealers. The outspoken Aerosmith frontman claims irresponsible doctors who are too ready to give out prescription drugs are more damaging than \u201cshady\u201d street dealers. Speaking about his long-term battle with drug addiction on the \u2018Dr.Oz Show\u2019 earlier this week he said: \u201cY\u2019know who the new dealers are? They\u2019re doctors. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}