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Newspapers distort the truth and dehumanise societys most vulnerable people when they report on drug scares, a new scientific study has found.

Public health experts at Liverpool John Moores University used the Monkey Dust epidemic in England during the summer of 2018 to pick apart how the media invokes the marmalade dropper drug scare story one that shocks Middle Englands newspaper readers into dropping their marmalade at breakfast in order to sell papers.

The study analysed 368 newspaper articles about the terrifying new drug in reality not one substance but a variety of potent, addictive synthetic cathinone stimulants such as MDPV and MDPHP that have been around for a while.

Researchers found that the media frenzy around Monkey Dust had all the inaccurate, hyped-up ingredients of a classic drug scare story: a brand new drug, more potent than any other, spreading to a town near you and with the power to transform people into violent sub-humans. It found that this kind of reporting not only exploited the poorest and sickest people in society for shock factor, but also made it harder for them to get help and put them in increased danger.

A swathe of 2018 newspaper reports, complete with lurid images, told readers that Monkey Dust was turning homeless people into zombie-like savages with superhuman powers. Vulnerable drug users were compared to the Incredible Hulk, while Stoke-on-Trent, the West Midlands city at the centre of the deluge of media reports, was like a scene from the Night of the Living Dead.

Monkey Dust originally the name of a satirical cartoon show in the early 2000s first appeared in a 2013 article in local Staffordshire newspaper The Sentinal about a murder case in which the perpetrator was alleged to be high on the drug known as monkey dust when he battered a man to death with a baseball bat. The drug was mentioned again in a couple of national papers in 2015, when a traveling salesman who chucked a cigarette through an elderly persons letter box and a robber dressed as Cruella de Vil were both said to be high on it.

But it was in the summer of 2018 that the Monkey Dust media feeding frenzy began. Sensationalist reports in the local and mainstream media including the BBC, Daily Mirror and The Telegraph began referring to the drug as evil, demon-like and abhorrent.

They were not sure what Monkey Dust actually was, but it was ten times stronger than coke, worse than heroin with cravings similar to meth. One local paper described it as the terrifying new street drug that turns users into zombies for just 2.

But drug users were not just zombies. According to many newspapers they were also cannibals. Alongside pictures of Hannibal Lecter, a series of articles suggested cannibalism was an effect of intoxication because it can make people who take it want to eat other peoples faces off.

Like escaped zoo animals, Monkey Dust users, newspapers said, were a highly unpredictable threat to the public who were unable to feel pain, deranged and could lash out at any time with unnatural strength. Sky News reported about a video showing one man, apparently high on the drug, leaping off the roof of a house onto a car, before getting straight up and attacking a police officer. They are just not of this world, said the Daily Mail.

Problem was, as VICE News reported at the time, and the study confirmed, the Great British Monkey Dust Panic while creating widespread clickbait alarm was not quite what it seemed.

The study found the media exaggerated the levels of use of the drug, its effects and the geographical extent of its use. Stories said people committed acts while high on Monkey Dust with little evidence they had taken it. The viral video of the man high on Monkey Dust jumping off a roof turned out to be from 2014, with no proof of what hed taken, while the line about the drug causing users to eat people had been cut and pasted from another, long ago debunked scare story from America.

Like most drug scare stories, from PCP and crystal meth to mephedrone and hippy crack, the study said local and national newspapers fed off each other. Once a false piece of information, or an outrageous quote was published, it spread across the media unchecked.

The media erroneously turned what was in reality a very localised story and a small group of disadvantaged people into a national threat. Far from plaguing the streets of the UK, Monkey Dust was largely confined to the Stoke area. Nevertheless the Daily Mail reported that all too many grim pockets of Britain were being transformed into the Incredible Hulk.

What most concerned the studys authors however was that drug scare stories such as the one about Monkey Dust have a direct, negative impact on societys most socially excluded people. Newspapers used anonymised photographs of homeless people and images of monsters to make drug users look a threat, instead of people struggling with serious problems.

Vulnerable groups were presented as the other and a group that should be excluded from city centre locations, said the study. People who use drugs were positioned as a drain on resources, through the pressures placed on public services, their perceived lack of economic contribution to society, and the negative effects of their physical presence in town centres as damaging to local economies.

Very few articles gave any explanation as to why people in Stoke-on-Trent might be getting high on drugs such as Monkey Dust, the study said. There was little mention of the austerity-fuelled social conditions, such as rising poverty and cuts to local services, that may have led to people becoming homeless and addicted to Monkey Dust in the first place, observed the study.

It might seem like harmless tabloid fun painting societys most socially excluded people as not of this world, but the study authors said these dehumanising stories have grave consequences. The study said that stigmatising drug users makes them less likely to seek help and means the authorities are less likely to give them it. Worse, it can put them in increased danger from members of the public and the police. In America, media myths about the power of drugs to make people superhuman have had a huge impact such as the killing by police of George Floyd in Minneapolis on the over-violent, and sometimes deadly, policing of drugs there.

The development of the meth zombie image in America, popularised by the use of dehumanising Faces of Meth mugshots, has been used to sew panic and injustice in communities, stigmatise the poor and hand down thousands of overly harsh sentences. The same can be said for crack in the US and for heroin in the UK. In Britain, the portrayal in the media of Spice users as inhuman zombies has made it easier for the public, police and the authorities to ignore why these people are taking drugs in such harmful way and for some to see them purely as objects of derision and disgust.

Media reporting has real life impact in that it can lead to increased police action, and in turn the further criminalisation of people who use drugs. It can have real life impact on the lived experiences of drug users by influencing public perceptions and attitudes, concluded the report.

It is important to change these narratives to prevent the negative effects of media reporting, and the need to ensure journalists report drug issues in ways that are better informed to prevent further harm to people who use drugs, and for policy makers to reconsider reactions to news media reporting that reproduce ineffective policy responses.

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Monkey Dust and the Anatomy of a Tabloid Drug Scare Story - VICE UK

Haunted house stories are having a moment. It might be quarantine. Or it could be Netflix's faultits release of The Haunting of Bly Manor has reinvigorated the discourse about what makes a good haunted house story and whether or not Mike Flanagan, the horror director who, between Bly Manor and Hill House and Doctor Sleep seems to be veritably obsessed with them, really has what it takes to make one that feels both scary and fascinating.

Haunted houses are special because houses are special. They keep us safeuntil they don'tand are both entirely familiar to us and entirely unfamiliar, as anyone who's had to deal with serious home repairs could tell you. People have intimate relationships with the places where they live. And that's a powerful entry path for horror. Or, as the opening line of Kitty Horrorshow's 2016 video game Anatomy puts it, "In the psychology of the modern civilized human being, it is difficult to overstate the significance of the house."

Horrorshow's game starts with a tape player in an empty kitchen and a single cassette. When you put it in, the narration begins, a faux-academic exploration of what houses mean, why they're special, and, most important, how people might think of them anatomically. Is a kitchen a stomach? Is a living room a heart? In what ways are houses like us?

All of this occurs, by the way, in an empty, modern suburban home. Two bathrooms, two bedrooms, a little narrow set of stairs. One peculiarity of haunted house stories is that they're often period pieces. It's the distance, I think: Old ornate Victorian-style homes are familiar without being too familiar. We want to think about how scary houses can be without actually letting that horror fully inside. Anatomy, a small game released on itch.io for PC, refuses that distance. This could be the house you grew up in. Or one you rented, for a while, in college, a lonely, dull little home at the end of a lonely, dull little cul-de-sac. It might be a lot like the one you live in right now.

The voice in the tape continues: "But of all the structures mankind has invented for itself, there is little doubt that the house is that which it relies upon most completely for its continued survival."

Anatomy understands the haunted house story. It understands why houses are scary and fascinating, and why artists from Henry James to Shirley Jackson to Mike Flanagan have been so obsessed with them. And alongside scaring you, Anatomy also wants to teach you. It is, in some sense, an exercise in explaining the jokeits narration delves into what is so frightening about a haunted house. But it's an exercise that's so effective and so deeply dialed in to the core of human fears that even when you understand it, you're still unnerved.

Here's how it's played: You find that first tape, in the kitchen of an empty, dark house. Then a message onscreen tells you to find another tape, in another room. In this way you explore the house, gathering tapes, listening to this voice contrasted with the uneasy, shadowy presence of the house. A presence that grows, as the house becomes more and more alien, as it begins to feel like something is there. Or maybe it's just the house itself, broken the way Hill House was in Jackson's novel. Then, a question arises: Whose voice is it on those tapes?

More happens in Anatomy's short run time, but summarizing it here would be to the game's detriment. But know this: What makes Anatomy feel vital four years after its release is the sense that it wants to welcome you into horror at the same time as it plays with horror storytelling. It pushes you to think about why scary things are scary, what deeper psychology is at work when you're afraid of the dark room at the end of the hall or what might be behind that locked door.

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Anatomy Opens the Creaking Door to Haunted House Tales - WIRED

Forgive me if Im wrong, as I am expressing myself on the behalf of an entire generation of people who grew up listening to Emraan Hashmi songs, most of them which were sung by KK. I am writing it down assuming that almost all of us have these same memories relating to these songs of this hit duo.

Back when we were kids and we never intentionally heard or searched for these songs, these tunes just submerged into our ears directly via radios at a school canteen or maybe your elder siblings/ cousins listening to them on TV. The tunes were so catchy that it probably got sucked by our unconscious minds. A time when movies and songs meant nothing to us, we were either playing all the time and partially studying.

As time passed further, we were enjoying our last couple of years in school. Sharing Games and Music via Blank CDs or Bluetooth Transfers. The attraction might be the first of all the feelings that we experienced, and it was that stage in our life. From animated channels we had shifted to music channels, the music we heard back then was now on the recall path.

Many of these songs from Emraans films were a part of Bluetooth transfers as we used our dads handsets. Being occupied with school, sports, tuitions, etc. the days passed by, these songs became a part of our life. As we were in the midst of understanding this term attraction which we never really understood and didnt even need to. Yet we enjoyed those new feelings in a way through these songs Zara Si, Soniyean endless list.

Now as of today, these songs might act as a highlight to all the memories and the tons of stories you were a part of. A time which might have been different for all of us, our stories and memories might differ but in a way, they are connected through some of these beautiful elements of various mediums.the Beetein Lamhein

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The medical drama Greys Anatomy has often been criticized for having an unrealistic portrayal of the medical work that goes on in a hospital.

While the show does demonstrate that the writers research the medical conditions and treatments that appear in each episode, things are often exaggerated to increase the level of drama on the show.

That being said, the character dynamics and emotions expressed on the show are intricate and very human, and when the writers are able to weave together an interesting medical plot with expert characterization and plot crafting, fans and critics alike are eager to dissect and share their responses to the show.

Sometimes, episodes of Greys Anatomy really resonate with something going on in the real world. Greys Anatomy has tackled subjects like abortion, police brutality, and sexual assault.

But in 2020, theres one episode of Greys Anatomy that is especially resonant. So what episode are fans pointing to as especially relevant in 2020? And what makes it hit so close to home?

The show Greys Anatomy is one of the longest running dramas on TV. It centers around the medical staff of a Seattle hospital, their work, and their interpersonal relationships.

The writing of the show has been praised by fans and critics alike, and the show has earned several awards. Its also had an impact on other TV shows and fan culture, from jokes that have spread out from the Greys Anatomy fandom to montage styles that have been copied by other shows. Its clear: the production team of Greys Anatomy created a veritable phenomenon.

And since Greys Anatomy is so huge, it therefore has a thriving fan community. On forum sites like Reddit and fanfiction sites like Archive of Our Own, theGreys Anatomyfandom shares much discussion and transformative work based on this show.

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In a Reddit on the Greys Anatomy subreddit, fans discussed the season six episode The Time Warp, and how resonant it is in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The episode is structured around various flashbacks that the main characters are having about how they began their medical careers. One physician reminisces about treating a patient with AIDS in the early 1980s, and the fear and uncertainty that came around treating a patient with HIV before much was known about the condition.

Because HIV/AIDS was still relatively uncommon in 1982 and under-researched, the show portrays the doctors as being extremely cautious about contact with the patient for fear to contracting the disease.

One reddit user pointed out there are parallels between the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and the COVID-19 pandemic today, and that this episode reminded them of this:

I have older nurse friends who say the Covid-PPE in ICUs reminds them of the AIDS-PPE they used in the 80s & 90s. Its been heartbreaking to know of Covid patients dying alone in isolation rooms with no skin-to-skin hand-holding or physical contact in their last moments, suffering the same fate as early AIDS patients. The AIDS crisis changed the way we viewed hospice, perhaps the Covid crisis will change the way we handle isolation and infection control.

This isnt the only way that Greys Anatomy has been relevant in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Though the show had to stop filming due to the pandemic, it will likely discuss the pandemic in the upcoming season.

But on top of that, Greys Anatomy, along with a few other popular medical dramas, donated large amounts of PPE to hospitals in need. Because things like N95 masks are used as props, the show had enough that hadnt been used that they were able to donate.

Beyond tackling societal issues in fiction, then, Greys Anatomy became a part of the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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'Grey's Anatomy': The Heartbreaking Episode That Hits Almost Too Close to Home in 2020 - Showbiz Cheat Sheet

A new shocking and jaw-dropping teaser has been released for the much-anticipated premiere of the "Grey's Anatomy" and "Station 19" crossover, which is set to hit the screens on November 12.

With just three weeks before fans of the beloved ABC dramas "Grey's Anatomy" and "Station 19" get to see the three-hour crossover premiere event, the network has released a captivatingteaser to whet fans' appetites.

In the 30 seconds promo clip, fans get to have a look at what to expect as the doctors and firefighters respond to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which would be explored. It began with a scene of Meredith Grey, played by Ellen Pompeo in complete personal protective equipment, which includes a face shield.

Looking stressed and desperate, Grey stands in the middle of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital with her together as if offering a prayer while she says, "sometimes we all need saving." It followed by a dramatic frame of Miranda Bailey, played by Chandra Wilson, looking through the glass and asking for a miraculous intervention.

Scenes from "Station 19" then come into play before there is an alternation between both shows. It is, however, the ending of the teaser that is the highlight of the promo as the background voice assures viewers that the premier would leave everyone shocked and saying, "Oh my god."

Season 17 of the medical series was first teased last month when Pompeo shared a photo of the crew on the first day on set after returning following the halt the pandemic brought to productions.

Before the image, Pompeo's co-star Giacomo Gianniotti confirmed that the new season would take off a bit farther from where things stopped in the previous season.

Its firefighter spin-off is set to return for its fourth season and explore the shocking revelation that Andy's mother, Elena, is not dead but alive. The show explores the lives and careers of the firefighters at the Seattle Fire Station 19, which is about three blocks away from Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

"Station 19" is the second spin-off of the award-winning "Grey's Anatomy," with the first being "Private Practice." The crossover would see Ben Warren, played by Jason George, and Andy Herrera, by Jaina Lee Ortiz, visit the hospital after a rescue mission that saved two boys from a house fire.

They take the boys for surgery and Warren who is a doctor turned firefighter is tasked with the decision to help out while Herrerra's hand remains in the victim's abdomen to stop him from bleeding.

Both shows premiere on November 12 with "Station 19" taking the lead at 8 pm and "Grey's Anatomy" coming in shortly by 9 pm. Other ABC shows set to premiere next month include "Good Doctor" on November 2, "Big Sky," on November 17, followed by "For Life" on November 18.

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Check Out the Dramatic Newly Released Crossover Trailer for 'Grey's Anatomy' and 'Station 19' - AmoMama