If anyone has recently been wtaching eastenders and hollyoaks recently, you probably noticed that there is an issue of substance abuse in both of them. Shirley from eastenders is drinking excessive amounts of alcohol and there is drug abuse in hollyoaks.
Alcoholism and drug addiction is a reacurring theme throughout most soaps at some point or another and thinking about it, actualy many other television programmes.
Issues like this can be seen as 'being bad' bacuse it goes against social norms set by society, and people are scared to talk about these things. But how much do you have to drink to become an 'alcoholic' or how many drugs do you have to take to become a 'drug addict', this is why these issues in my opinion are part of 'being bad' as for example drinking is something most people like to do socially, down the pub with mates or to relax, but it would seem that there is a line upto where it is ok to drink or do drugs and then there is overstepping the line leading to addiction. This is then not 'being bad' but it becomes an illness. But at which stage is it classed as a social activity and how easy is it to lead to addiction.
Sunday 9 March 2008
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