单项选择题

The media’s depiction of America as a drug-ridden society is not only -------, but leads to bad policy, for the tendency of some leaders to conflate both innocuous and serious drug abuse into ------- and dreadful statistic is often motivated by nothing more than paranoia.

A. contemptuous ... an accurate
B. dishonest ... a secret
C. resilient ... a realistic
D. inaccurate ... a single
E. remorseful ... a unified