Drugs and Media

Read all three (3) attached articles (1. Drugs and the Media, 2. Public Enemy Number One, and 3. Miracle Drug, Poison, or Placebo: Patients Experiences with Antidepressant Medications as Described in Postings on an Online Message). Answer the following five (5) questions:

1. According to the author of each article, what has been and is the role of the mass media?
2. How is social media (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) changing the landscape regarding drug messages?
3. What new forms of or enhancements to social media can you envision over the next 5 years? How will be medias role and hence its impact change in the future?
4. How can the Pharmacists voices be heard in this new media environment?
5. Given the rapidly moving marijuana legalization landscape, what biases now seem to be present in Nixons War on Drugs?

Additional current references from the literature (which you must properly cite) are encouraged to support your points.