Dealing with the media on drug issues may be intimidating and frustrating, says Petra Maxwell, but it’s worth taking on the challenge Pressing the point (PDF)
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Druglink article 2006 – Hack attack: why drug users are fair game by Lorraine Fisher
Tabloid journalist Lorraine Fisher, former health correspondent of the Daily Mirror, defends the red top newspapers record on drug reporting Hack attack: why drug users are fair game (PDF)
Druglink article 2006 – Myth-representation by Roy Greenslade
Drugs give newspapers and TV shows the perfect chance to stereotype, vilify and sensationalise. But, says columnist Roy Greenslade, the media’s handling of drugs issues is doing more harm than good. Myth-representation (PDF)
Druglink article 2006 – The chronicles of Narcomania by Max Daly
Max Daly on the media’s addiction to wild tales depicting drug users as modern folk devils. Professionals from the drug field air their views on how narcotics are depicted in newspapers and on TV. The chronicles of Narcomania (PDF)
Druglink article 2005 – Quick fix for the six pack by Mark White
As pressure builds on men to have toned torsos, use of steroids has spread from body builders to the Loaded generation. Mark White on the vanity-fuelled class C drug and its lesser known cousin – human growth hormone. Quick fix…
Druglink article 2005 – Generation ecstasy by Andrea Wren
Twenty years ago The Face published the first article on the little known drug ecstasy. Ten years ago Leah Betts died. Now ecstasy is being taken by the dozen on street corners for 50p a pop. Andrea Wren tracks the…
Druglink article 2005 – Who gets angry over Anne Marie? by Max Daly
On September 15th model Kate Moss was pictured in a tabloid paper taking cocaine. The same day the strangled corpse of one of Britain’s many drug-using street sex workers was found in the heart of Liverpool’s red light district. Max…
Druglink news item 2005 – Crack squirrels: the making of a bushy tale
It was the drug tale had legs – and it ran and ran…It seems that furry animals and drugs are an irresistible combination Crack squirrels: the making of a bushy tale (PDF)
Druglink article 2005 – Flushing out the truth about drugs by Mike Linnell
Over the past two decades Lifeline’s publications have caused hilarity and outrage in equal measure. Director of Communications Mike Linnell on the moral dilemmas of getting harm reduction messages across to drug users. Flushing out the truth about drugs (PDF)
Druglink article 2004 – Beware: stoned hippies at large by Alan Travis
As newspapers spooked the public with stories of cannabis-crazed hippies and glue sniffing kids, the real drug problem in 1974 was Britain’s love affair with sleeping pills. Alan Travis, The Guardian’s home affairs editor, looks back at the media’s treatment…