Danger Zone One

[Published 2 Weeks Ago]
Letters to the Editor, Pallad City Post

Pallad City Post:

I’m writing in response to last week’s article about the Pallad City Advisory Council partnering with ADVANCE for a citywide anti-drug campaign. Is anyone gullible enough to believe a few billboards, posters, and pamphlets will do anything to curb this city’s raging drug crisis?

All I see are more tax dollars destined to be wasted on ineffectual programs. The Alcohol Drug Violence Awareness National Coalition Effort has been around for nearly three decades and I have yet to read a study that provides actual statistics on their success rates. But I do read the Pallad City Post’s frequent surveys telling us how much worse drug use and violent drug-related crime are becoming in this city.

I’m not sure what the answer is, but I don’t imagine any anti-drug campaign being the solution. I would encourage someone at the Pallad City Advisory Council to look into a study published last year by the Nu Metropol Institute of Health, “The Failure of Mass-Media Campaigns in Preventing Drug Use”. People who are looking to experiment with something like Sydust, Nucaine, or a pleasure drug likely won’t be deterred because of a pamphlet. And let’s be clear, with these deadly new designer drugs constantly popping up, an ad campaign isn’t going to stop users from continuing to take a substance as addictive as Afterlife.

Cathy Moor
Berkel District

Danger Zone One. Story by Midnight. Art by Salaiix.