Four Corners: Feb 15
Four Corners presents a report on the dance party drug scene.
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On Monday Four Corners presents “Dying To Dance,” a report by Caro Meldrum-Hanna on the dance party drug scene.
In this provocative Four Corners story, Gold Walkley award-winning reporter Caro Meldrum-Hanna goes inside Australia’s dance party drug scene.
They could be your friends, your workmates, your children.
They’re the voices of young Australians, speaking candidly about taking so-called “party drugs” and they’re more common than you would guess. Australians are the highest users of ecstasy and its main chemical component MDMA, per capita, in the world.
And despite the feel good nickname, “party drugs” can kill. Seven young Australians have died in the space of a year, hospital admissions are on the rise and concerns are growing about the increasing purity of the drugs. But this isn’t deterring them.
With billions spent on enforcing anti-drug laws, some of Australia’s most eminent medical, legal and policing minds are speaking out and saying the “war on drugs” is failing.
Monday 15th February at 8.30pm on ABC.
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Every year, we see TV footage of thousands of schoolies “coming of age” by partying with the most common entry-level drug in their hands – alcohol. The message is clear: you can have more fun with drugs. Until we change that thinking from the ground up, starting with the kids at home and school, and offering safe alternatives to our youngsters, the drug problem, like alcohol-fueled violence, is only going to get worse. The war on drugs has failed because it’s no better than trying to kill a massive tree by picking the leaves.