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    Research Group finds Drug ads to be Ineffective

    The government's anti-drug ad campaign has not been proven to deter children from using drugs, and lawmakers should consider reducing funding for the $1.2 billion program, congressional auditors said yesterday.

    The Government Accountability Office based its recommendation on its review of an independent evaluation of the media campaign by Westat Inc.

    The government has spent about $1.2 billion since 1998 on scores of television, print and radio ads designed to discourage drug use among youth. The ads also describe parents as the anti-drug. President Bush requested another $120 million for next year.

    Westat found the ads had no "significant favorable effects" in deterring children from trying marijuana or in getting them to stop. Rather, it found that more 12½- to 13-year-olds and girls were trying the drug after seeing the ads, the GAO said.

    Congress first authorized funding for the media campaign with the expectation that changes in youth behavior would be evident within three years. But early analysis was inconclusive, and the government contracted with Westat Inc., a research company, to evaluate the program.

    A draft of the report was submitted last year. The GAO sought to verify whether Westat's analysis was credible, and confirmed that it was.
    The ads are quite common. A recent television ad, for example, shows a nurse standing over a boy who appears to have his fist stuck in his mouth. The boy mumbles something, and the nurse translates: "Yesterday my friends told me to smoke some pot and I did. Then today they said I should try and fit my fist into my mouth. It fits but I can't get it out."

    The agency that oversees the media campaign, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, took issue with several aspects of Westat's evaluation.

    John Walters, director of the office, said the study was ill-suited to judge the effect of an ad campaign. The findings also have limited relevance because they are more than two years old, he said in a written response to the GAO's findings.

    Walters said establishing a direct relationship between advertising exposure and outcomes is virtually impossible.

    "We have dealt with criticism of the campaign from adversaries, including those who advocate the legalization of drugs," he said. "And we have periodically needed to place these findings in context, especially because all major youth surveys report declining teen drug use."

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    Inferius Reviewed by Inferius on . Research Group finds Drug ads to be Ineffective The government's anti-drug ad campaign has not been proven to deter children from using drugs, and lawmakers should consider reducing funding for the $1.2 billion program, congressional auditors said yesterday. The Government Accountability Office based its recommendation on its review of an independent evaluation of the media campaign by Westat Inc. The government has spent about $1.2 billion since 1998 on scores of television, print and radio ads designed to discourage drug use among Rating: 5

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    Research Group finds Drug ads to be Ineffective

    Quote Originally Posted by Inferius
    The government's anti-drug ad campaign has not been proven to deter children from using drugs, and lawmakers should consider reducing funding for the $1.2 billion program, congressional auditors said yesterday.

    The Government Accountability Office based its recommendation on its review of an independent evaluation of the media campaign by Westat Inc.

    The government has spent about $1.2 billion since 1998 on scores of television, print and radio ads designed to discourage drug use among youth. The ads also describe parents as the anti-drug. President Bush requested another $120 million for next year.

    Westat found the ads had no "significant favorable effects" in deterring children from trying marijuana or in getting them to stop. Rather, it found that more 12½- to 13-year-olds and girls were trying the drug after seeing the ads, the GAO said.

    Congress first authorized funding for the media campaign with the expectation that changes in youth behavior would be evident within three years. But early analysis was inconclusive, and the government contracted with Westat Inc., a research company, to evaluate the program.

    A draft of the report was submitted last year. The GAO sought to verify whether Westat's analysis was credible, and confirmed that it was.
    The ads are quite common. A recent television ad, for example, shows a nurse standing over a boy who appears to have his fist stuck in his mouth. The boy mumbles something, and the nurse translates: "Yesterday my friends told me to smoke some pot and I did. Then today they said I should try and fit my fist into my mouth. It fits but I can't get it out."

    The agency that oversees the media campaign, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, took issue with several aspects of Westat's evaluation.

    John Walters, director of the office, said the study was ill-suited to judge the effect of an ad campaign. The findings also have limited relevance because they are more than two years old, he said in a written response to the GAO's findings.

    Walters said establishing a direct relationship between advertising exposure and outcomes is virtually impossible.

    "We have dealt with criticism of the campaign from adversaries, including those who advocate the legalization of drugs," he said. "And we have periodically needed to place these findings in context, especially because all major youth surveys report declining teen drug use."

    http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/p...7/1013/48HOURS
    it's about time they figured this out, the war on drugs was over before it even started, since the ads have been around there has been an INCREASE in the use of the herb! we spend more money on "marijuana prohibiton" than we do on missing children funds!

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    Research Group finds Drug ads to be Ineffective

    Based on my own personal research in observing everyone's opinion on drug ads, I find these anti-drug ads to be ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!! We should not take them seriously, but write letters to the creators of these commercials for providing such entertainment while we are getting stoned.

    Come on guys!! I'm above the influence!! Wait how do you do that? Let's see.. let's all spin around in circles until we get dizzy and then we can hand out some anti-drug leaflets in front of k-mart. and then we can all go out for icecream!!! What a rush, it's like 1,000 orgasms!!!

    horray for being above the influence, but it still gives me the munchies.
    Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?

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    Research Group finds Drug ads to be Ineffective

    Quote Originally Posted by Captain Hanks
    it's about time they figured this out, the war on drugs was over before it even started, since the ads have been around there has been an INCREASE in the use of the herb! we spend more money on "marijuana prohibiton" than we do on missing children funds!
    ive seen several things saying that it doesnt work, but if u look on the sights like drugfree.org ect ull see that they deny this and say they do work which is a problem cuase ppl tend to believe the DEA, FDA, and all those organizations.... that is unless they educate themselves a bit :thumbsup:
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    Quote Originally Posted by graph
    It\'s hard to convince us that weed\'s the problem when all of us here know it\'s not. At one time I think we all used to be like you, we believed the government at face value and accepted the fact that because it\'s illegal, it must be immoral, too. Then we all grew up a little bit and realized our own experiences should shape the path of our lives, not what someone else tells us to think
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