Australian news media reporting of methamphetamine: an analysis of print media 2014-2016.

CONCLUSIONS: The coverage of methamphetamine in the Australian print media mostly serves to construct methamphetamine use as an urgent social problem, often framed from a legal perspective and associated with violent, dangerous, deviant and aggressive users. Implications for public health: Such reporting and stigmatisation of methamphetamine use can undermine public health policy responses and strategies, including early intervention and treatment and focused efforts directed at those most at risk of harm. PMID: 33104272 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health - October 26, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rawstorne P, O'Connor R, Cohn A, Fredrickson A, Jayasinha R, Hayen A, Lancaster K, Nathan S Tags: Aust N Z J Public Health Source Type: research