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