Don't let them know how far you go...

If celebrity influences were the primary reason that youths choose to engage in drugs, we would have to ask ourselves what it is that causes celebrities to do drugs. The answers to this would be similar if we did a study as to why anyone does drugs: to relieve themselves from stress and pressure, to numb themselves from traumatic experiences, family issues, or depression. Celebrities, believe it or not, are human beings! Not only that, but the majority of celebrities were not stars the moment they were born. This leads us back to the question of why celebrities do drugs, and the answer to this question is similar to the one that people would come up with when asked why people in general do drugs. To blame celebrities for the influence they impose on youths regarding drug use would lead one in a cycle of blaming former celebrities who influenced popular modern celebrities who abuse drugs, and blame their drug use on the celebrities before them, and the ones who influenced them, and so on.
Furthermore, to say that celebrities have so much influential authority over the illicit activities that youths engage in, would imply that celebrities have more of an influence on kids than their families and institutions that they belong to. Generally speaking, parents are discouraging drug use, true friends who care about the health and well-being of their peers are discouraging drug use, and churches, schools and coaches are discouraging drug use. Do celebrities have more influence on kids than their families and friends? If this is the case, then maybe parents should take a critical look at their morals and standards when it comes to raising their children. If your daughter cares more about looking like Lindsay Lohan and doing everything she does in order to supposedly glamourize herself, than she does about her family and her health, then there is something to be said about what is really causing the drug problem, the celebrity models or the role of the parents in her life. Hmmm…