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Int J Drug Policy
January 2025
School of Psychological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Background: News media is an important determinant of public understanding of drug policy topics. Recent media reporting around the use of synthetic drugs such as xylazine makes frequent use of non-human metaphors, including reference to the effects of 'zombie drugs'. We investigated whether presentation of news stories which included such dehumanising frames were associated with i) increased stigmatising attitudes towards people who use drugs; and ii) lower support for relevant harm reduction programmes.
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January 2025
The reviewer is at the Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Narratives that invoke ancient DNA must be crafted with care, argues an archaeologist.
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