Nhằm giúp các bạn có thêm tài liệu tham khảo và ôn thi tiếng Anh, mời các bạn cùng tham khảo nội dung tài liệu IELTS Academic Reading Sample 123 - Is There Really a War on Drugs dưới đây. Hy vọng nội dung tài liệu phục vụ hữu ích nhu cầu học tập và ôn thi. | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 13 which are based on Reading Passage 123. Is There Really a War on Drugs A In our c ontemporary society the media constantly bombards us with horror stories about drugs like crack-cocaine. From them and probably from no other source we learn that crack is immediately addictive in every case we learn that it causes corruption crazed violence and almost always leads to death. The government tells us that we are busy fighting a war on drugs and so it gives us various iconic models to despise and detest we learn to stereotype inner-city minorities as being of drug-infested wastelands and we learn to quot witchhunt quot drug users within our own communities under the belief that they represent moral sin and pure evil. I believe that these titles and ideals are preposterous and based entirely upon unnecessary and even detrimental ideals promoted by the government to achieve purposes other than those they claim. B In Craig Renarman s and Harry Levine s article entitled quot The Crack Attack Politics and Media in America s Latest Drug Scare quot the authors attempt to expose and to deal with some of the societal problems that have resulted from the over-exaggeration of crack-cocaine as an quot epidemic problem quot in our country. Without detracting attention away from the serious health risks for those few individuals who do use the drug Renarman and Levine demonstrate how minimally detrimental the current quot epidemic quot actually is. C Early in the article the authors summarize crack-cocaine s evolutionary history in the . They specifically discuss how the crack-related deaths of two star-athletes which first called wide-spread attention to the problem during the mid 1980 s. Since then the government has reportedly used crack-cocaine as a political scapegoat for many of the nation s larger inner- city problems. Thefts violence and even socioeconomic depression have been blamed on crack. They assert that the .
