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