Anti-drug advertisements usually end up making more kids do more drugs - Polidicks

[quote]The Office of National Drug Control Policy, established in 1988, runs the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, a propaganda machine created to stop kids from using drugs and the money behind anti-drug ad campaigns like "My Anti-Drug" and "Above the Influence." Since it was established in 1998, the government has poured hundreds of millions of dollars a year into buying ad spots for anti-drug propaganda. But does it work? Carson Wagner, now an assistant professor of journalism at Ohio University, wrote his 1998 Penn State master's thesis in media studies on the counter-intuitive effects of anti-drug ads. He demonstrated that for some kids, [B]seeing anti-drug ads made them curious about what doing drugs would be like[/B], even if they had never had that curiosity before. When anti-drug ads say "don't do drugs," they inherently bring up the implicit question "should I do drugs?" The ads can draw attention to a gap in what the viewer knows about drugs, making them more curious. It's like when you miss a call from an unknown number -- the phone ringing prompts you to wonder "who was it?" In a 2008 study, participants who were primed with anti-drug PSAs were more curious about using drugs than those that hadn't seen the PSAs. Wagner and his co-author, S. Shyam Sundar, found that because anti-drug ads made the viewer think more about drugs, it could also lead them to believe drug use is more prevalent than it really is. "These results should be seriously considered, as it has been consistently recognized in psychological research that curiosity is one of the most potent motivational forces for human behavior," the paper warned.[/quote] [url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-03/science-psas-do-anti-drug-ads-keep-kids-drugs[/url]

No shit.

[quote]He demonstrated that for some kids, seeing anti-drug ads made them curious about what doing drugs would be like, even if they had never had that curiosity before.[/quote] Haha, I remember feeling like this after the 'drugs education' lessons we'd get at school. Especially since the UK anti-drugs ads that the curriculum was working with are relatively bullshit-free, meaning the reasons not to do drugs like cannabis and lsd always came across as kinda pathetic.

I remember back in elementary school, we had to do some drug education stuff. All that did was make me curious, so it's understandable that others would be too.

[i]YOU[/i], ALL RIGHT?! I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING [i]YOU![/i] edit: I think the DARE program was the worst offender. They'd show videos that supposedly showed teenagers smoking pot. All I could think was "Wow. Getting high looks fun."

Alcohol is a drug. [I]Caffiene[/I] is a drug. That shit's everywhere, and if kids see people drinking shit all the time they're going to assume drugs are illegal just for the hell of it. I mean, while illegal, cannabis is far, far less harmful than alcohol in terms of its negative effects, dosage limits and stuff you do under the influence, and yet violence-inducing, liver-wrecking alcohol can be bought pretty much anywhere? Any child with a brain is going to question that.

because they're not getting david mitchell to do more of them [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db30fS5ryfM[/media]

Do Not Do This Cool Thing.

As a younger kid, I thought those Above the Influence ads were about what all the cool kids do while high as a bird's dick. I know I'm not the only one to interpret those skyward arrows as a symbol for being high.

Relevant: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD1lZP9TJP4[/media]

[QUOTE=SinjinOmega;40291280]No shit.[/QUOTE] Uh actually one would assume that adverts showing drugs in a negative light would dissuade people from taking them, you know.

This one always made me want to smoke pot. [video=youtube;jgJdVEoVbgg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgJdVEoVbgg[/video]

[QUOTE=Negrul1;40291795]Haha, I remember feeling like this after the 'drugs education' lessons we'd get at school. Especially since the UK anti-drugs ads that the curriculum was working with are relatively bullshit-free, meaning the reasons not to do drugs like cannabis and lsd always came across a little on the pathetic side.[/QUOTE] When I was in Middle School they told me that if you smoked pot once you would get permanent brain damage and had a 2/3 chance of getting physically addicted.

I like to watch anti drug adds when I get high, they're always a good laugh.

I've always wanted to be deflated [video=youtube;w_tx_fTjhBI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_tx_fTjhBI[/video]

The only anti-drug PSA I remember seeing when I was little was the "This is your brain on drugs" one (the one where they crack open an egg over a frying pan and it sizzles, it's probably the one of the most well known ones). But thanks to the Nostalgia critic I saw some other famous anti-drug PSA's from the 80's and 90's, they're so cheesy and over the top (some would incorporate "twist endings" like one were the father is actually talking to his dead son, the most hilarious one involving Pee-Wee). Nowadays, anti-drug PSA's try to go for the "shock therapy" approach where they'll show someone who's body has been seriously damaged from drug use.

glad that more and more people are realizing how fucking stupid and un-effective these anti-drug programs were, heres to hoping they'll start giving proper education on recreational drug use or at least give it to people who are seeking it. I think bringing up the idea to high school kids is going to spark their curiosity even more, I think it'd be more effective if they just told everyone "dont do drugs faggot"

The DARE program actually got rid of their marijuana curriculum in younger grades like 6-7th, for the same premise that instead of deterring them they were introducing them to it. They wanted to focus more on tobacco and alcohol, as those are the two drugs that are more likely for them to encounter.

Couldn't help but think of this [video=youtube;PqsOKNo9mk0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqsOKNo9mk0[/video]

Most of them are so stupid that they practically beg kids to look into the truth about drugs in research and reputable sources as opposed to from biased propaganda.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrhuaj540Aw[/media] *Avatar* Really, this doesn't surprise me in the least either. You can't exactly get an effective message a crossed about the subject matter in the time-span of a commercial. """Scare tactics""" and sensationalism isn't the best way to go about it, no ship!?

Maybe they should take a new approach and just have a shady man tell people to "Buy it, it's good for business." while some men in the background are tossing bodies out of a truck into a pit.

Reminds me of this: [QUOTE]A couple of years ago, Lee came into direct contact with the police in an unexpected way - when his own teenage son joined a gang. "I never thought I'd actually turn to them looking for help," Lee said. It was then that Lee revealed his past to his son. The high school sophomore was shocked. "Suddenly, he thought I was hiding things from him," Lee said. "He looked at it like, "Holy smoke, my father and my grandfather were a bunch of original gangsters.' I think it damaged him more than anything."[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Inside-Chinatown-s-gangs-3239507.php#page-2[/url]

They put up a bunch of anti drug posters at our school today One of them says that 5 joints have the same amount of chemicals as 1 cigarette, and another says 1 out of 6 students that try pot get addicted. It's the Take 5 Campaign, look 'em up.

One poster in my school says "Marijuana changes how your brain funcions[I][sic] [/I]"

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40293639]They put up a bunch of anti drug posters at our school today [b]One of them says that 5 joints have the same amount of chemicals as 1 cigarette,[/b] and another says 1 out of 6 students that try pot get addicted. It's the Take 5 Campaign, look 'em up.[/QUOTE] Gotta be honest man, this doesn't sound anti drug at all, it actually seems to be in favour of weed, so it's a terribly designed poster.

My local DARE officer was fired for drinking on the job. Saw him a few months later at a gas station loading beer into the back of his truck.

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40293639]They put up a bunch of anti drug posters at our school today One of them says that 5 joints have the same amount of chemicals as 1 cigarette, and another says 1 out of 6 students that try pot get addicted. It's the Take 5 Campaign, look 'em up.[/QUOTE] First one sounds more anti smoking than anti-weed, probably intentional. The other one definitely sounds more anti-weed.

The whole video is awesome, but if you don't wanna watch it skip to 3:50. [video=youtube;qZqYV9KKOZQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZqYV9KKOZQ[/video]

You know if they legalized and regulated this stuff it would be cleaner, cheaper, taxable, and not smuggled into the country via dead animals and in people's asses before other people jam it into themselves but heaven forbid we actually HELP the people who abuse drugs! They're CRIMINALS after all!