Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drugs. Show all posts

Drugs And Society

In the late 1930s, the movie Reefer Madness dramatized the effects of marijuana abuse (watch the entire video here). In the 1970s, it was ridiculed as hysteria and propaganda.

In light of this, and without trivializing meth addiction (which I understand to be devastating... but where does my information come from?), what do we think of these anti-meth PSAs from the Montana Meth Project? (You can also find television commercials there to go with these print ads.)



Hat tip to copyranter for bringing my attention to this ad campaign.

Blame It On The Baby Boomers

Chris Uggen has a nice discussion of this graph (see here) showing the (it turns out more or less linear) change in drug use between 2001 and 2007. In particular, he offers a nice idea for how to use it to talk about the difference between cohort, age, and period effects.


Graph originally found here.

Rich Girl Angst

Found here.

Big Pharma

Click here for a humorous music video about prescription drugs and the pharmaceutical industry.

Speaks For Itself