Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK, illustrated how the public's perception of drugs' risks is distorted by selective reporting. They published a 10-year review of drug deaths in Scotland which showed that the chances of newspapers reporting a death from an overdose of paracetamol (acetaminophen) was 1 in 250, a death from amphetamine was 1 in 3 and that every death from ecstasy was reported.
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