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)
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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 – 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 article 2004 – Shame on who? by Katie Burrell
Jackie and her family became social outcasts after her sons were outed as heroin users. Katie Burrell on how families are fighting to rid themselves of the shame heaped on them not only by friends and neighbours, but by society…
Druglink article 2010 – Shackled to an age-old stigma by Stuart Walton
The stigmatisation of drug users as morally corrupt and undeserving of compassion has its roots in the Victorian anti-alcohol movement. Stuart Walton on how society is struggling to free itself from what is becoming a debilitating habit. A gathering mood of intolerance is abroad…
Druglink article 2010 – News values by Caitlin Hughes, Kari Lancaster, Francis Mathew-Simmons and Paul Dillon
What messages do young people get from media reporting on illegal drugs? Does it make them attracted to drugs, fear them, or just confused? A ground breaking Australian study has come up with some answers. News values (PDF)
Druglink article 2010 – Good stigma: an oxymoron by Harry Shapiro
A debate has sprung up, chiefly within the letter pages of Drink and Drugs News, around the effects of what is being called ‘bad’ stigma (people being shunned because they have drug problems) and ‘good’ stigma (ensuring drugs are not seen as a cool or sensible…
Druglink article 2011 – Are you experienced? by Eliot Albert
Little by little, drug users are developing a growing influence on the international policy stage. And Australian users are showing the rest of the world how it’s done at a national level. Eliot Albert on the rise of global drug user activism. For the…
Druglink article 2011 – Shooting the ultimate taboo by Michael Simpson
The overwhelming pull of addiction versus the prospect of motherhood provides the hook for Hollow, a short film by the award-winning London film director Rob Sorrenti. Michael Simpson looks at how the highly stigmatised dilemma of being a drug-addicted mother has been portrayed…