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From Scare Tactics to Reasoned Decisions: A Decade of Drug Education Films

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Over the past decade, the Audiovisual Assessment Group of the Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario has evaluated nearly 500 drug education films. A review of those evaluations reveals that good drug education films meet certain criteria and that, although there are many good films, there are many gaps that film producers could fill.

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  1. Addiction Research Foundation, 33 Russell Street, M5S 2S1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Margaret A. Sheppard (Research Associate) & Michael S. Goodstadt (Head, education research section)

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  1. Margaret A. Sheppard
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Sheppard, M.A., Goodstadt, M.S. From Scare Tactics to Reasoned Decisions: A Decade of Drug Education Films. ECTJ 30, 91–96 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02767425

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