Social Science & Medicine, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 379, С. 118188 - 118188

Опубликована: Май 10, 2025

The changing landscape of substance use and related harms, interventions, priority setting in Canada has intensified public commentary about youth drugs. Given the politicized nature these issues significant role media shaping societal views responses to use, there is pragmatic value examining how represented contemporary coverage, including identify potential shortcomings. This study employs a mixed-methods critical content discourse analysis explore characteristics consequences as portrayed Canadian news media. Data comprise articles (N = 611) published between 2016 2024 referencing retrieved from Newsstream. Quantitative was used collate information Types Substances commonly referenced media, well Nature Problem, Solutions Proposed, Experts Represented. informed qualitative analysis, which surfaced key problem representations use: Uncritical Generalized Representations Harms on Rise, Insufficient Resources, Youth's Lack Agency. also distilled pertaining solutions proposed articles: Missing Youth Perspectives, Downstream Interventions, Individualistic Devoid Context. Together, findings explicate reflecting and, turn, discourses use. From findings, we discuss opportunities shift broader more comprehensively frame address

Язык: Английский