Tag Archives: The Wire

Quality press can take no credit for advances in drug policy

June 29, 2009 – 10:34 am

The Croakey post below about television series, The Wire, has prompted the following response from Dr Alex Wodak, President, Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation:
“Croakey is right that ‘The Wire’ is a remarkable series and exceptional in that it depicts a complex reality from multiple perspectives.
But the argument advanced by David Simons, the primary series creator, [...]

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From The Wire to Good Times, Bad Times

June 26, 2009 – 9:31 am

I like the saying that you so often hear in health – that each system is perfectly designed to produce the results that it does. It’s often used to account for the evidence that the health system itself causes an enormous toll of health problems, known in the jargon as “adverse events”.
Dr Tom Keating, who [...]

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