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15 Kristina Sauerwein and Aisha Sultan, “Baby Boomers Tolerate Teen Drug Use,” St. Louis Post—Dispatch,15 September 1996, p. D1.
16 Jane Daugherty, “Boomers Come Face-to-Face with Kids’ Drug Abuse,” Detroit News, 27 February 1996. CBS report cited in Reeves and Campbell, Cracked Coverage, p. 150. See also Joseph A. Califano, “Dangerous Indifference to Drugs,” Washington Post, 23 September 1996, p. A19.
17 ABC, “20/20,” 14 March 1997.
18 Statistics about parents: Christopher Wren, “Marijuana Use by Youths Continues to Rise,” New York Times, 20 February 1996, p. A11; ABC News Special, “Straight Talk About Drugs,” 12 March 1997.
19 “Drug Use by Teen-Agers,” New York Times, 23 August 1996, p. A26.
20 ABC, “Good Morning America,” 5 March 1997.
21 See Leslie Savan, “ABC Fries,” Village Voice, 18 March 1997, pp. 34-35. Clinton quote from ABC, “Good Morning America,” 31 March 1997.
22 Examples of the stories on mothers: ABC, “Good Morning America,” 3 March and 7 March 1997; ABC, “World News Tonight,” 3 March and 25 March 1997. “Grace Under Fire” episode aired 14 March 1997.
23 Critics: Jennifer Nix, “Worse-Than-Useless Anti-Drug Propaganda?” Salon, 12 March 1997 (online) ; Jacob Weisberg, “This Is Your Network on Drugs,” Slate, 15 March 1997; Savan, “ABC Fries”; Robert Scheer, “Fighting Abuse Only When It Doesn’ t Pay,” Los Angeles Times, 11 March 1997. “Popsicle” quote from ABC, “Good Morning America,” 3 March 1997; ABC, “Turning Point,” 6 March 1997 (contains “allure” quote). See also stories on ABC, “Good Morning America,” 4 March 1997, and ABC, “World News Tonight,” 17 March 1997.
24 Criticism of ABC: Weisberg, “This Is Your Network”; Savan, “ABC Fries.” Headlines cited in Jack Shafer, “Smack Happy,” Slate, 19 July 1996. ABC’s “Turning Point” aired 6 March 1997. “Stemming the Flow on the Heroin Trail,” TheAge (Melbourne, Australia), 2 August 1997 (contains statistic).
25 Shafer, “Smack Happy” (contains Newsweek citation); Brent Staples, “Closing in on Death,” New York Times, 26 May 1997, p. A22; Ike Flores, “Heroin Has Its Deadly Hooks in Teens Across the Nation,” USA Today, 9 October 1996, p. A4. Other quotes from Mike Miles, “Another Anti-Teen Fix,” Extra, November-December 1996, pp. 15-17.
26 ABC News, “Turning Point,” 6 March 1997; ABC, “World News Tonight,” 17 June 1996.
27 Bruce Johnson, Andrew Golub, and Jeffrey Fagan, “Careers in Crack, Drug Use, Drug Distribution, and Nondrug Criminality,” Crime and Delinquency 41 (July 1995): 275-95; Mike Males and Faye Docuyanan, “The Return of Reefer Madness,” Progressive, May 1996, pp. 26-29; Mike Males, “Another Anti-Teen Fix,” Extra, November—December 1996, pp. 15-17; Michael Massing, “Heroin and Red Herrings,” New York Times, 6 December 1997, p. A21.
28 Massing, “Crime and Drugs.”
29 Christopher Wren, “Drugged Look in Fashion Ads Angers Clinton,” New York Times, 22 May 1997, p. A12. Comparison statistics: Males, “Another Anti-Teen Fix.”
30 CNN, “Prime News,” 13 August 1997; Dina Bass, “Poll Finds Sharp Rise in Drug Use Among Youngsters,” Los Angeles Times, 14 August 1997, p. A4; NBC, “Nightly News,” 13 August 1997. See also ABC “This Week,” 17 August 1997.
31 Household survey: Eric Lekus, “Use of Illegal Drugs Declined for Adolescents in 1996,” Baltimore Sun, 7 August 1997, p. A1; CNN, “Prime News,” 13 August 1997. See also Christopher Wren, “Survey Suggests Leveling Off in Use of Drugs by Students,” New York Times, 21 December 1997, p. A12.
32 Christopher Wren, “Drugs Common in Schools, Survey Says,” New York Times, 9 September 1997, p. A12.
33 On fluctuations and trends see Barry Glassner and Julia Loughlin, Drugs and Crime in Adolescent Worlds (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987); Michael Massing, “Reefer