The U.S. has spent millions of dollars since the 1980s on anti-drug ads. But research shows that some of these older public service announcements might be counterproductive. Now that the ads are ...

Last week, we posted a list of anti-drug commercials that not only didn’t stop any children from doing drugs, but potentially encouraged such abusing behavior. The famed PSA one-liner, “I learned it ...

The Mexican government is using video of homeless people and open-air drug users in Philadelphia’s embattled Kensington neighborhood in a national ad campaign to try to scare young people away from ...

Laugh all you want, but there doesn’t seem to be any consensus on what kind of ads actually work. The most-talked-about brand in America so far this week is . . . meth. Specifically, South Dakota meth ...

A Philadelphia Inquirer columnist is calling out Democratic leadership in the city after Mexico released anti-drug PSAs featuring homelessness and open drug use on the streets of the city's Kensington ...

The times, they are a changin’. The embattled Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General is holding a YouTube video contest. Ninth-graders from schools across the commonwealth submitted 31 short ...

Researchers have demonstrated that television public service announcements (PSAs) designed for and targeted to specific teen personality types can significantly reduce their marijuana use. In a study ...

In this Hanna-Barbera-produced anti-drug spot from the 1970s, the protagonist goes on a jovial jaunt to an outer borough of Drugachussets and then is attacked by a bunch of ghouls in a cosmic medicine ...

Tragedy struck the the Electric Zoo last year. The second day of the annual Randall’s Island dance music festival was canceled after two concertgoers died, reportedly after taking MDMA. Though the ...

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The U.S. has spent millions of dollars since the 1980s on anti-drug ads. But research shows that some of these older public service announcements... Anti-Drug PSAs: Do They Work? The U.S. has spent ...