This past week and over the weekend, I've been watching the Netflix show Breaking Bad. In this show, I've realized that there is a glorification of the production and use of drugs (specifically meth and weed). This show follows a high-school science teacher suffering from lung cancer as he starts his own enterprise cooking top-tier meth and selling it in order to pay for his treatment and leave money for his family. Although quite often in the show he suffers negative consequences as a result of his actions, some things portray production and use of this drug as beneficial and much less harmful than they are. Every time a character on the show is pictured doing a drug, very little happens. For almost every scenario, if you were to take out the drug scene and just show the effects they could have done something as mundane as eat a pizza that made them a little nauseous; not once (so far) has an overdose been pictured, and most often the only pictured negative effect is nervousness or hyper-ness. In addition to this, the true dangers of additions are completely glossed over and ignored; no character so far has gone beyond 'casual use,' and suffered in any way from an inability to stop using, which doesn't happen in real life. Overall, I love this show- but I have to acknowledge that it does not present an accurate or realistic picture of drug production or use.
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