Does the media glamourise drug use?

Answer 1

of course it does. where else can you be a total coke head, with a smack head boyfriend, all the while your young child looks on, and still walk away with millions of pounds worth of modelling contracts? christ, if i was a teenage girl, i'd take up the snow, because its a well attractive lifestyle!

Answer 2

Yes. Mind you there are two sides of the coin.

Human traffic - british film about youths taking ecstasy in cardiff every weekend, it just makes you want to do it really, although to be fair thats just face value, look again at the film and you'll see that it has a very serious undertone to it and explains well why people are taking ecstasy nowadays and also the down side of doing it and other drugs.

trainspotting- surely does not glamourise drugs (heroin) mind you it must be impossible to glamourise this drug.

But i think the media does tend to glamourise it yes. But I have a theory that people do drugs because they have nothing else to do and are bored. Great theory huh.

Answer 3

Nope. The media glamourises a lot of other nonsense but in a typical wanting its cake and eat it loves drugs because a) you can have all sorts of tragedy stories "how I lost my son to killer drugs" b) triumph over tragedy "human interest" stories- "coke nearly killed me" and c) the so-called news stories - "true cost of drug epedemic facign Britain's youth" and then my favourite d) the celebrity confessional (usuallly a celeb reveals all after tabloid newsppaer threatens them with exposure for their misdeeds - nice touch scumbags - ie if you want a sympathetic hearign tell us everything otherwise we reveal it, crucfy you and hang you out to dry with all the other media having a go as you didn't "apologise" - this is the: "My Cocaine Shame..."
One thing I always find curious is why is always a "shame" - because that is what is demanded of a hypocritical media - most of whom have done or do (and yep speak from knowing a lot of journos who all had handy little packets) drugs in order to make sure they dont glamourise drug use. Most people are not shmaed just annoyed or embarrassed they got caught...most who do o did it did so for a reason - it was fun and they had a hell of a party doing it! Just another example of the UKs awful media...

Answer 4

Of course it does! That isn't to say that all people will be influenced by it, the people likely to start taking drugs after seeing them used in film and on TV are probably the ones who would use drugs at some point anyway. The media glamorises all things that are drummed in to us to be bad from a very early age. Even murder sometimes.
I don't think the media is to blame for these things occuring though, anyone who's taken drugs or been in an environment where they are being used knows that in most cases media depiction isn't accurate.
As far as I'm concerned people make their own choices.

Answer 5

of course not, drugs being a lot of fun and making you feal great is what glamourises it., why does the media/government not admit this and start a sensible awareness campaign on why it is bad for your health/life. If the papers said "boil your head", do you really think the masses would do it?

Answer 6

Yes it does. The papers show pics of the bravado of Pete Doherty but they don't show the hovel that he lives in. Kate Moss still has all her lucrative contracts as does Pete!
If they worked in a factory - their antics would have put them on the dole in a nano second.
So the fact that they take drugs and still amass a vast amount of money glamorises it!
When Tara PT had a collapsed nose through taking cocaine- she was on every talk show you could think of making a fortune out of it!
Personally I find the lives and loves of celebrities boring so switch over as soon as these stories are being related. Would you want the local drug dealer to be on Parkinson or Jonathan Ross?

Answer 7

i agree totally with you on this the media does glamourise drug use and the users as ok to do, i think this is wrong and should be banned from glamourising such a sick habit

Answer 8

When you can't open the papers without being presented with the latest "thrilling" escapades of Kate "Coke Head" Moss and Pete "Got any Skag?" Doherty it makes you wonder.

It seems like these people are being treated like heroes despite the fact that they are drug addicts and should really be held up as an example of how NOT to live.

I don't see much point in Jamie Oliver screaming and raging about people eating crisps when those who use dangerous and life threatening drugs are being promoted as glamourous icons of the 21st century. Drugs kill more people than crisps do.

But then again I guess its one law for the rich and another for all us proles.

Answer 9

I'm not sure it is relevant, we all know at first hand dope heads with addled brains,we see nurses and doctors smoking,obesity,somewhere down the line we must be responsible for our own health, what I would like to see is the health service making people realise this and put them to the bottom of the list for appointments operations etc.It may sound and indeed be harsh but we who try to look after our bodies should be rewarded in some way

Answer 10

Many might call this a "Conspiracy concept," yet i'm under the impact there's a purpose via the persons who administration maximum persons of media impacts(this is an quite small team of persons via ways) to impression and sell detrimental happenings and to dumb down the rustic as an entire.

Answer 11

i think that in printing stories about Kate moss and Pete doherty the media gives the impression to people that it is OK to take these drugs,even more so when Kate moss seems to have come up smelling of roses .if she lived on a council estate her daughter would surely have been taken away from her.