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(b) However, the following criticisms were made :
Some of the Myths and Truths APIs were
(c)
(i)
(ii)
regarded as "unhealthy" c.g. the one depicting the young man going into a girlie apartment with his girl friend appeared to encourage a wrong kind of moral attitude. The Healthy Alternative APIs showing a young man having a good time with his girl friend appeared to encourage crude pleasure-seeking.
The Drug Abuse Telephone Enquiry Service should
give more information about how the authorities
help the addicts and their families after they ring up about their problems.
Concern about "soft" drugs
(a) It was reported that the taking of soft drugs
such as L.S.D., marijuana etc. among young people including students had increased significantly.
(b) Many soft drugs were readily available from
dispensaries and drug stores.
(c) The harmful effects of soft drugs and tranquillizers
were not known by the public generally. The common belief was they were much less dangerous than heroin and problems arising could be more casily
dealt with.
(a) Taking soft drugs was considered fashionable
(e)
amongst some so-called modern thinking young people who imitated one another under the influence of
peer group psychology..
Soft drugs addicts did not bear the same social stigma as hard drug addicts.
(f) Observers advocated that the Government should
pay more attention to the dangers of this vice spreading as taking of soft drugs could easily be the first step to further hard drug addiction.
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