Leaving Las Vegas And Drunks Analysis

Leaving Las Vegas and Drunks are two films created in the 1990’s that attempt to accurately depict the hardships of addiction involving Alcohol Use Disorder. Leaving Las Vegas, a 1995 film, depicts an alcoholic and nightwalker’s last resort to find something special after a lifelong struggle to stay afloat. Director Mike Figgis recruits actors Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue for the main roles Ben and Sera. Ben turns to alcohol after his wife and child abandon him, and after breaking down and quitting his job, he burns his possessions, buys as much liquor as possible, and drives to Las Vegas so he can drink himself to death. In Vegas, Ben meets Sera, who is working as a street walker, and they maintain a romance based upon the mutual need
“Mass media interventions for reducing mental health-related stigma” set out to find if mass media interventions, an expensive alteration to individual reform, are worthwhile. Each intervention was evaluated for the nature of such intervention, content and type, collected from 11 scholarly databases. 22 studies from 4490 participants were chosen, all random trials with five discrimination outcomes, having no evidence of effect, and three trials with continuous outcomes, with a negative effect on viewers. Similar to the discrimination trials, interventions with prejudice outcomes were found to favor the interventions. In conclusion the data collected found that stigmatism in the interventions collected had a small to medium effectiveness in reducing viewer’s bias. Specifically, prejudice was slightly reduced in each trial, but discrimination was found as a harder problem to solve. In order to further diminish prejudice and specifically discrimination, more research must be collected in these interventions in order to determine which mass media interventions work most