Mike Males

The press misstates the true extent of America’s drug problem, Mike Males claims in the following viewpoint. Males contends that teenage drug use is not a serious problem; instead, he maintains, the actual drug crisis is among adults. According to Males, adults over age thirty-five represent a significant percentage of overdose deaths and emergency room admittances. In contrast, he maintains, only a small percentage of teenagers use illegal drugs. Males argues that the media are too eager to help politicians blame youths for the nation’s drug problem instead of focusing on the dangers of adult drug use. Males is the author of The Scapegoat Generation: America’s War on Adolescents.

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