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DrugScope: Drugs In The Media

3rd September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

A quick hello
This is the first of a DrugScope monthly round-up of media coverage about drugs. DrugScope is the main UK drugs information charity and we also represent and support over 700 people working mainly in drug treatment services.
We run a daily online news service called DS Daily and you may have seen or heard us on radio and TV giving our comments on the latest developments in the world...

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Mephedrone media muddle

24th March 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Mephedrone (aka meow meow, M-Cat etc) clearly has harmful effects - our Druglink magazine recently reported on a case where several young people were hospitalised after using it, and the internet is full of chat about bad experiences under the influence of the drug.
But it is perhaps not surprising that having discovered the latest ‘new drug scare’, the media should have got many aspects of the story wrong either because...

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Celebrity smoke and mirrors

18th March 2010 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

According to the Times, a new report from MPs blamed celebrities for glamorising cocaine use. What the MPs actually said, on the basis of evidence from DrugScope was quite the reverse, that celebrities were not to blame for the rise in cocaine use over the past decade. And quite right too.
Did Kate Moss make any public statement extolling the joys of drug use? No. Somebody took a clandestine photo in...

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DrugScope – sorting out the drug facts from the fantasy

8th March 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

DrugScope is an independent registered charity. This year is our tenth anniversary, but we were formed from two charities which between them had nearly eighty years experience of providing drug information, conducting research and supporting drugs workers.
The whole landscape of illegal drug use is politically sensitive and potentially explosive. Views can be very polarised and underpinned by a ton of misinformation, bias and ignorance. Trying to see past the smoke...

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