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While the DEA was focusing on crack, some news organizations were questioning whether the entire drug-abuse story has been receiving too much attention. The New Republic ran a cover story billed "Confessions of a Drug- Hype Junkie," written by Adam Paul Weisman, a researcher at U.S. News & World Report who worked on that magazine's July 28 cover story about drug abuse. Weisman charged other publications with "blatant sensationalism" for having ignored statistics indicating there is no boom in drug experimentation among high school students; the number who sampled cocaine, he noted, has been oscillating between...
...Drinking the soda is probably no worse than drinking a cup of coffee," says UHS Director Warren E.C. Wacker. "It sounds more like hype than reality...
...been so much written about drugs recently that we thought it was time to step back and take a longer view. In 1900 people were bent out of shape over Coca-Cola because it contained cocaine. At the same time there is a serious problem here, and, the hype notwithstanding, we really are in the midst of a national crisis...
...their workmates and schoolmates, to their neighbors and friends, to their communities and to themselves -- that drug use is not acceptable. If that is, in fact, one result of the current frenzy over what has been a recurring crisis for successive generations of Americans, then even all the hype and excess may in retrospect be worthwhile...
Taken on its own, the stadium celebration could be considered a success. In the wake of all the hype surrounding the finale to Harvard's four-day birthday party, the gala inevitably did not live up to the heightened expectations surrounding...