Anti Drug Propaganda

As children grow up in the United States, they are accustomed to the anti-drug propaganda to which everyone has been exposed to since very young ages. The United States have programs such as D.A.R.E, where police officers come into a classroom of middle school children, and educate them about the effects of drug abuse. “SAY NO TO DRUGS!” is a phrase that is mostly embedded in everyone’s head. Advertisements on television and posters on billboards have become more clever to reach out to different age dynamics and different groups of people. Yet, there is a consistent rate of drug abusers even though the federal government has banned illicit drugs and means are taken to control the drug abuse. But what if, the government wasn’t particularly concerned …show more content…
Though people unauthorized to sell the drugs could possibly be penalized and convicted, the drug abusers were protected by the law. Nonetheless, the police, media and health experts still attempted to spread the knowledge that drug abuse offended public morals and threatened the future of the nation. Their efforts helped shape three kinds of spreading representation of addictions and users. First were the actors, they represented the addiction as a disease affecting …show more content…
The lack of stable payment agreements in both the legal and illegal contexts created a generalized feeling of being cheated and abused, modifying exchanges in local economies and forging a new social identity built around stealing. This trend cannot entirely be explained by the growing poverty, indigence, and social exclusion that structural economic policies have engendered. It is also linked to changing relationships between law and legitimacy, legality and illegality that supported these structural reforms, which have had modified the everyday experience of law, informal rules, and legitimacy within impoverished populations. In particular, the progressive blurring of the boundaries between legality and illegality in the workplace and police repression has engendered an economy of violence that changed the local status of drug dealing and affected the basis of exchanges among drug users.” (Epele 284)
The changing relationship between what was legal or illegal that supported the structural reform in Argentina increased social inequality, increased poverty to alarming levels. The complex relationships helped induce social exclusion and changed how the drug dealers made their money. The increase in poverty, unemployment, hunger, criminal activity and violence, caused a distrust and despair. The confusion of the boundaries between what was legal and illegal in the workplace and police repression