If governments want to tackle drug use, targeting those at most risk is a better strategy than mass campaigns.
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Fears that TikTok is “serving up” drug content to impressionable users have prompted calls for all drug content to be censored on the platform. But that would remove useful health advice too.
Few teens use MDMA and scare tactics, like those we’ve seen recently, are unlikely to reduce existing drug use further.
When it comes to cannabis legalization, we don’t need more education, we need to do education better.
Parents can help protect their kids from cannabis abuse by openly discussing the health risks, the pleasures and the responsible ways to use the drug.
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta
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Lecturer, RMIT University
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Project Manager and Adjunct Associate Lecturer, University of Newcastle
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Sessional psychology lecturer, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Education & Society, Monash University
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Associate professor of community health sciences, University of Calgary
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Research Fellow, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University; UNSW ; Burnet Institute