What do TV shows and movies use for drug use?

Making fake drugs look like the real thing is a challenge on many TV and film sets. Cocaine, pot, heroin ... Drugs play vital roles in the story lines on many of this season's TV shows, as well as new releases in theaters. On “Homeland ... How do the behind-the-scenes experts fake drug use? read more

They are both movies that show the downside of drug use, and the writer of Requiem for a Dream, Aronofsky, explains how he wanted to describe drug addiction (7): “Ultimately Requiem for a Dream is about the lengths people go to escape their reality, and that, when you escape that reality, you create a hole in your present, because you’re not there. read more

When people receive not only the outright advertisement of substance use but also the suggestion that they should drink, smoke or use drugs through portrayals in the movies, music and television, it should not be surprising that they end up doing so. read more