Jack Shafer: “The pharm-party meme refuses to die”
A lack of evidence never stops a journalist from declaring a trend. Slate’s Jack Shafer makes the point about alleged pharm parties, a “drug bacchanalia in which teenagers meet up to dump the pills they've pilfered from their parents' medicine cabinets into a collective bowl”:
In recent months the Petoskey News-Review, the Las Vegas Sun, the Herald Bulletin (Anderson, Ind.), the Rapid City Journal (S.D.), the Oklahoman, the Salisbury Post (N.C.), the Long Island Press, the Caspar Journal, the Times & Transcript (New Brunswick, Canada), the Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.), the Reading Eagle (which also calls the drug mix a "fruit salad"), the Paducah Sun, the Salt Lake Tribune, the Charlotte Observer, and other newspapers have given publicity to pharm parties without visiting one.
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I was skeptical at first about "pharm-parties". However, I work with a couple college age kids that openly admit to attending these sorts of gatherings. Not only are pills taken from parents/friends, but they also collect pills they have purchases illegally.
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