{"id":99402,"date":"2026-08-10T16:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/humans-have-been-taking-drugs-since-pre-history-this-is-why-theyre-so-vital\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:48:31","slug":"humans-have-been-taking-drugs-since-pre-history-this-is-why-theyre-so-vital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/humans-have-been-taking-drugs-since-pre-history-this-is-why-theyre-so-vital\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans have been taking drugs since pre-history \u2013 this is why they&#8217;re so vital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/health\/2237160\/drugs-pharmacology-health-rod-flower\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/11\/590x\/2237160_1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pharmacologist Rod Flower tells the story of medicines in his fascinating new book<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/health\/2237160\/drugs-pharmacology-health-rod-flower\">Daily Express :: Books Feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmacologist Rod Flower tells the story of medicines in his fascinating new book Daily Express :: Books Feed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1023],"tags":[5876,1683,1374,311,30184,840,2118,10357],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}