Journalists Called Out for Media Treatment of Drug Users

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Journalists Called Out for Media Treatment of Drug Users

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Calls for journos to use care when describing drug users
15 March 2019 | 07:25 ICT
Media outlets have been called on to use care when describing drug users and to not disclose details that might reveal their identity or that of their family in order to avoid harming their chances of treatment.

The call came in a meeting with journalists to remind them of the Joint Declaration on the Media Code of Conduct For Reporting Related to Drug Use and Drug Users held in the Club of Cambodian Journalists (CCJ) in Phnom Penh on Thursday.

Chhay Sophal, journalism professor and deputy director of the CCJ, said drug users should be considered as victims and patients, with the media having a responsibility to help them.

“Drug users are victims and patients, so we will cause them further harm if we call them things like ‘drug-play gangster’, ‘drug addict boy or ‘drug-mad girl’. These terms will make them more despairing."

“As journalists, we should try to not use accusatory words but rather those that encourage them to seek treatment”.

The Media Code of Conduct on Drug Use has 15 articles, including guidelines on not using discriminatory words or those with a stigma attached in the reporting of drug use as the shame caused could disrupt a user’s treatment.

Information that could reveal a drug user’s identity or that of their family in either an article or in photographs, audio or video should also not be used.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... drug-users
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Re: Journalists Called Out for Media Treatment of Drug Users

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The Media Code of Conduct on Drug Use has 15 articles, including guidelines on not using discriminatory words or those with a stigma attached in the reporting of drug use as the shame caused could disrupt a user’s treatment.

Information that could reveal a drug user’s identity or that of their family in either an article or in photographs, audio or video should also not be used.
Does that include those cop photos of drug users hand-cuffed, dressed only in their underwear, looking horribly hungover, desperately pointing at some little bag of white crystals weighing about 0.001. Remind me who takes those photos again ? Oh yeah, it's the umm ... :chin:
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