ayjay
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Just the first para quoted above - for the rest follow the link. The editorial in today's Age also promotes drug law reform. Nice to see the media onside!! Interestingly, the worker interviewed in the article talks about stigma as a most significant issue in the embedded video - but this isn't picked up in the text or the editorial. Interesting... I guess whatever happens, people reserve the right to hate junkies
ILLICIT drugs are widely viewed with fear and loathing. Parents, in particular, are understandably terrified their children will become addicted to headline-grabbing horrors including heroin and methamphetamine and crack cocaine. Alcohol and other drugs are known to be extremely hazardous to the developing brains of young people.
The apprehension is endlessly fuelled by stereotypical images of dishevelled, desperate drug users roaming the streets.
While the fear of addiction is rational, the widespread demonisation of drug use is often hypocritical and borders on collective hysteria. The reality is that most people who use drugs - legal and illegal - do so recreationally and relatively safely.
Just the first para quoted above - for the rest follow the link. The editorial in today's Age also promotes drug law reform. Nice to see the media onside!! Interestingly, the worker interviewed in the article talks about stigma as a most significant issue in the embedded video - but this isn't picked up in the text or the editorial. Interesting... I guess whatever happens, people reserve the right to hate junkies