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Re:What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid A... by flachsechs on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:33PM (#15242318)
well you could say the same thing about 'this is your brain on drugs' when crack was going around. that was also a PSA that entered into the public consciousness and then turned into a joke.
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Re:What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid A... by otakucode on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:42PM (#15242420)
That 'this is your brain on drugs' thing with the egg and the skillet was heroin, not crack. I believe they did do a crack update later where the woman took the skillet afterward and destroyed the kitchen with it. To conflate humor and lampooning of those PSAs as not taking the actual drug issue seriously is not wise, though. Many people simply realize how useless, hyperbolic, and ultimately insulting those PSAs were.

If something is scary, you show the thing. You don't make up metaphors. Trainspotting and Requiem for a Dream most likely prevented more people from ever trying heroin than any government-sponsored PSA ever did.

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Re:What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid A... by dredmorbius on Thursday September 14, 2017 @06:32AM (#15246539)
There's an update to that ad: "This is your brain on drug policy".

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXN6Vdr3g0

Spoiler: same actress.

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Re:What Science Says to Do If Your Loved One Has an Opioid A... by intopieces on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:35PM (#15242342)
Sure, but one of these was paired with mass incarceration of a certain group of people, associated with laws that were struck down because of their disparity in sentencing. The other, not.
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