“Partnership for a Drug Free America Targeting America’s Youth”

Background of Partnership for a Drug-Free America In the 1980s, at a time when cocaine use was booming in the United States, the American Association of Advertising Agencies donated money to help form an organization with one goal: to reduce the demand of drug use through media communication. In 1986, the Partnership for a Drug-Free America was born. Partnership for a Drug-Free America is a “private, non-profit, non-partisan coalition of professionals from the communications industry”(Partnership …

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