Will This Do Any Good?
You all remember: "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions."
As a soldier in the war on drugs, these types of Public Service Announcements usually come up wanting.
Maybe you'll agree with Peg, maybe with Wendy.
So, naturally, who'll listen?
For the full article from the New York Times, go here.
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As a soldier in the war on drugs, these types of Public Service Announcements usually come up wanting.
Peg Shea, a former drug treatment specialist who signed on as the project's executive director in late September, said she started out a skeptic, considering most antidrug commercials "dorky." "Then I saw these ads, and heard them," she said. "I saw the quality and the impact."Check out these from the Montana Meth Project and tell me what you think. There are some for print, radio, and tv.
Maybe you'll agree with Peg, maybe with Wendy.
"The ads are dead on, that's exactly the way it is," said Wendy Kongstvedt, 17, a student at Helena High School. "But it's just another thing adults are telling us not to do."
So, naturally, who'll listen?
For the full article from the New York Times, go here.
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posted by Mr. Mac | 8:46 PM
8 Comments:
No matter what the add's tell us what to do and what not to do people are still going to what they want to do. They have shown us what the consequences are and people are still going to take those risks.
Ashley
Pretty much same here, but I do believe that it probably does(maybe not intentional) more for the parents if anything. Although they are not geared towards the parents.. when the parent sees it on television it reminds them of the children, and so on and so on you can make the connections.
And yeah, it is Montana but doesn't Montana have one of the highest meth-production numbers in the United States? The Millward Brown marketing firm took teams from both its Chicago and Fairfield, CT field offices to survey that. My sister was one of the people from Fairfield and the worked with the montanameth.org site for that survey. Small world.
Myles
I agree with Ashley. These are terrible ads and they disgust the viewer, which is the point, but there are still a ton of people out there who will want to experience the consequences for themselves.
-Kristina
There are definitely people who will still do it no matter what, but those ads are more graphic than any i've seen. I think they will be more effective. At least they'll probably make you think twice about what you're doing.
Emily
ads do nothing at all, from experience, anytime ive seen a drug add i just laugh its stupid...none of those things work for teenage kids, they have their own minds, noone will tell that whats wrong or right they have to figure out on their own...
-romitti
The people who are going to are going to. The best you can do is scare way those who might be scarable, or smarten up those who might be smartenable.
Its important for ads like these to exist, mostly because they make people feel like they are doing something to help a problem which in they can't REALLY do anything about..The ads put the ideas in our heads that these things are wrong, but in the end it would ultimately be the person's decision if the risk was too great..It's similar to being an addict...Rehab doesn't help you stay sober, it just gives you a foundation on which to rebuild your life..You have to decide, yourself that you have a problem..
well some of the commercials i have seen just make me laugh, like the ones that look like the girl is melting, or how about the one where the kid is getting chased by a dog "because his friends told him to" and why do all these kids look about 12? If 12 year olds are doing drugs that a whole differant issue. -michaelene
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