News flash

Apparently, those rock and rollers like to do dope. Really, from the picture they have of poor ol' Courtney Love, the article could be a concerned article about why rock and rollers feel this compulsion to get disturbing amounts of plastic surgery. But that will never happen. Our society has its stories in place: drugs are ugly, nasty, evil things, but plastic surgery is something you do for yourself, to enhance your self-esteem.
Of course, it doesn't hurt that the drug business is illegal and the plastic surgery business is a legal, advertising, Congress-bribing business. That wouldn't have anything to do with why one is considered the lowest of the low and the other is celebrated on Fox television shows.
I'm not excusing drug abuse at all. There is no doubt that for whatever reason, rock music attracts drug addicts. I've had my moments when I've shaken a friend or two and yelled at them for abusing drugs. I've seen people slip away. But make no mistake, there is a disingenous side to the anti-drug propaganda like this.
We live in a society that encourages self-hatred and self-destructiveness, because it turns a buck. Good, sober people dig themselves into nightmarish debt holes pursuing the ordinary, if materialistic, American Dream. People tear up and ruin their bodies with plastic surgery. Alcohol and tobacco abuse are the norm and billion dollar industries. People are openly offended if someone even dare question how their lifestyles are ripping up the enviroment, ruining it for future generations. To forstall inevitable oil shortages, we murder people by the tens of thousands on trumped up charges to get at their oil.
And we have the nerve to clutch our pearls and wonder in amazement that people, particularly those who are sensitive, artistic types, would rather get loaded until they die than despair in sobriety.