BBC Radio's Virtual Druggie
How's this for a concept: an anti-drug site that actually dispenses useful, somewhat accurate information? BBC Radio One has an anti-drug site called Excess All Areas that says: "If you're partying hard, make sure you party smart. Our virtual clubber takes the drugs so you don't have to."
But like the anti-drug propaganda of my youth, Excess All Areas does more to whet your appetite for mushrooms, speed and meth than to scare you straight. Enter the flash site and you control a British club kid as he saunters around a darkened club, waiting for you to select from the following menu of substances: Alcohol, Cocaine, Cannabis, Ecstasy, Mushrooms, Speed and "Spiked" (as in drinks). Once you choose his drug, your kid starts dancing while the basic information about your drug of choice appears on the screen. When you click "Take More," his dancing gets druggier and you get the scoop on higher dosages. Click on "Cocktail," and you find out the effects of mixing this drug with other ones. The red circles lead to more specific information on the affected body part, brain, stomach, etc.
Excess All Areas is part of BBC One's OneLife games, which dispense info on smoking, sex, poisons, finance, etc. Public service announcements aren't supposed to be this fun! For effective anti-drug propaganda, try Faces of Meth. And speaking of virtual clubs (nsfw). "Excess" via peremeny
HAHA I'll have some of the "spiked" please?? How intriguing.
Posted by: Steve PMX | February 22, 2006 at 06:04 PM
that kid is gonna have to learn to drink if he's going to hang with me. i wasted him in 3 minutes and we were only drinking.
Posted by: Kenny in Baltimore | February 22, 2006 at 11:53 PM
That site sucked. It could have been a real fun game. Only one drug at a time? What kind of lame crap is that? I wanted to start off with E, move onto booze, snort some coke, go back to booze, and see how long it took to kill the guy.
Posted by: listener_paul | February 23, 2006 at 10:01 PM
Cute, but the music is AWFULLLLLLL. Still, harm reduction gets big props from me, no matter what, there needs to be more of this and less ONDCP crapola.
Posted by: Apophenia Pareidola | March 27, 2006 at 10:27 PM