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Topics: Read all three (3) 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). As part of your discussion, answer the following five (5) questions:
Question 1:According to the author of each article, what has been and is the role of the mass media?
Question 2: How is social media (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) changing the landscape regarding "drug messages"?
Question 3: What new forms of or enhancements to social media can you envision over the next 5 years? How will be media's role and hence its impact change in the future?
Question 4: How can the Pharmacists' voices be heard in this new media environment?
Question 5: Given the rapidly moving marijuana legalization landscape, what biases now seem to be present in Nixon's "War on Drugs"?