Raves, Drugs and Rock and RollThe representation of drug use by

Teenagers in the media

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 Rock n’ Roll?• The influence of music in the consumption

of illegal drugs

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

Straight Movement

• Neil Young “the Needle and the Damage Done”

• Minor Threat Straight edge

From Rock to Pop?

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

Skins (2007-2013)Skins (2007-2013)

Effect: Skins PartyEffect: Skins Party

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

Conclusions• Who are we to judge?

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