Pubdate: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 Source: Orlando Sentinel (FL) Copyright: 2000 Orlando Sentinel Contact: 633 N.Orange Ave., Orlando, FL 32801 Fax: (407) 420-5286 Website: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/ Forum: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/interact/messageboards/ Author: Brad Lyons DRUG TALLY I was most impressed with the recent article exposing the blatant wrongs in the way Florida tallies up its designer-drug deaths. It seems that nowadays the popular trend in the news media is to jump all over everything involving "designer drugs" and to spend a lot of time trying to demonize the whole of America's youth culture. I was particularly impressed that you showed that, though the "designer-drug" (for lack of a better term) epidemic among young Americans is particularly troubling, you were one of the few news-media outlets to make a discernible attempt to give both sides of the issue, as opposed to merely rehashing the same stuff about young people and drugs. Brad Lyons Orlando - --- MAP posted-by: Allan Wilkinson