eenglish drug testing

article name

‘drop the pretence’ festival goers are old enough to say no to drugs

xavier symons job

research associate at institute for ethics and society @ notre dame

context/stat for the beginning

there have been 6 related drug deaths between 2017-2019 in NSW alone.

Ideas

harm minimisation of drugs should be prioritised over the lawfulness of drugs, or the moral panic

5 techniques from doco

• case studies

• voice over

• interviews

• music/cam angles

• credibility/appeal to authority

QUOTES FROM ARTICLE (4)

• “these young adults and mature adolescents - we should drop the pretense of childish naivety”

• “it would also be naive to ignore the myraid of harmful affects of careful drug use”

• “if we completely medicalize the drug problem, we end up with a culture in which casual drug users are immune from any sanction whatsoever“

• “framing adolescents and young adults as disempowered subjects who lack the capacity to make rational decisions and say no to drugs”

3 techniques from article

• juxtaposition

• emotive language

• scare factor

rose and marcus quotes (3)

• drugs arent the key, we come for the music but they enhance our time here and make everything feel better - i mean their are people that go too far, but thats not us, were sensible

• always doing drugs in a comfortable environment

• devo that pill testing aint at boomtown, cause her age group love the scientific drug testing and aftercare

tom tilley quotes (2)

• ive been reporting on music festival drug deaths for over 5 years

• does pill testing save lives, or does it give a green light to drug use