YOUTH MAGAZINES

BY KEITH NUTHALLANTI-DRUG officials in the European Union (EU) have confessed to being such cultural dinosaurs, it was five years after reports about ecstasy emerged in youth, music and lifestyle magazines before they started collecting and reporting data on the drug. The admission, by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), comes in a paper on systematically using such media for intelligence and for spreading anti-drug messages. Said the report: "Because of the hidden (illegal or illicit) nature of drug use, a time lag usually ...


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