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Timeline of use of Drugs in the UK
Early 19th Century: Opium and Cocaine
1918: Death of Billie Carleton
1920: Death of Freda Kempton
Dangerous Drugs Act
1938: LSD-25 is synthesised
1966: LSD is banned in the UK. Marijuana is the most popular drug
June 1967: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are sentenced to prison
July 1967: 'Legalise Pot' campaign
1987: Ecstasy is used in British “rave culture”
1995: Leah Betts dies in Essex
Early 21th Century: New synthetic drugs are being used
Drugs and Recreation
• Study conducted by sociologist Claude Douglas in 2006 reggae music is one factors for the consumption of marijuana around the world
Drugs and Creativity
• The Beatles: Pink floyd LSD• 27 Club-member death Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim
Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse
Influence of films and TV shows on youth’s use of drugs
Influence of films and TV show on youth’s drug use
• Acquisitive projective identification = someone takes on someone else’s attributes
• 47% British teens said movies and TV series make drugs “OK”
Cinema as a potential influence
Cinema as a potential influence
British cinema on drug useBritish cinema on drug use
Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy (2011)
Human Traffic (1999) Pure (2002) Trainspotting (1995)
Closer look: Trainspotting (1995)Closer look: Trainspotting (1995)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE-QQdUbbPk
References• Twisselmann, B, Trainspotting, BMJ, 2011• Edemariam, A, Scott, C, What happened to the Trainspotting
generation?, The Guardian, 15 August 2009, http://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/aug/15/scotland-trainspotting-generation-dying-fact, assessed 24/04/2015
• Tasserit, M, 'Skins' parties, even trashier than Woodstock? Really?, The observer, 01/10/2009, http://observers.france24.com/content/20091001-skins-parties-trashy-commercial-france-lille-aix-teenagers, assessed 24/04/2015
• Wainwright, M, Police arrest girl whose MySpace site led to £20,000 party disaster, The Guardian, 14 April 2007, http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/apr/14/ukcrime.martinwainwright, assessed 24/04/2015