{"id":25336,"date":"2025-12-24T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25336"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:02:07","slug":"when-porch-pirates-steal-medicine-instead-of-holiday-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25336","title":{"rendered":"When porch pirates steal medicine instead of holiday gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Sydney Lupkin for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carmen Peterson&#8217;s son Ethan is a big fan of Elmo and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. And although Ethan is nonverbal, he loves to sing along in his own way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a really fun-loving 8-year-old. He doesn&#8217;t speak, but he gets his point across,&#8221; Peterson says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethan has a rare genetic disorder \u2014 Syngap1 \u2014 which, among other things, causes a kind of seizure that can make him drop to the ground without warning  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/12\/24\/nx-s1-5642562\/porch-pirates-mail-theft-medicine-drugs\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/12\/24\/nx-s1-5642562\/porch-pirates-mail-theft-medicine-drugs\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sydney Lupkin for NPR) Carmen Peterson&#8217;s son Ethan is a big fan of Elmo and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. And<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[65,1989],"class_list":["post-25336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-porch-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25337,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions\/25337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}