D.A.R.E. says HBO's 'Euphoria' glamorizes drug use, sex and violence - Euphoria (2019) Discussion

[–] rex (2808) 3 years ago

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[–] DMT (4483) 3 years ago

i like DARE and thought it was super interesting. actually won the award for being the best DARE student. ended up being the first stoner of all my peers and done every drug pretty much since. DARE was cool tho i liked the cop that showed up to our class, he had the most interesting, graphic, and violent stories to tell us kiddos. after spending years being lectured to by fat old ladies about the most boring shit this was a fun change of pace for us kids

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[–] JoeBlow88 (574) 3 years ago

DARE was interesting, I remember seeing all the dugs in the glass cases that we passed around and the cop telling us the street value. I did too many drugs too, I was lucky to get out of it at fairly young age - it is sad to see the people half the grew up with living in the addicts poverty.

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[–] rex (2808) 3 years ago

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[–] DMT (4483) 3 years ago

lol noice

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[–] rex (2808) 3 years ago

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[–] DMT (4483) 3 years ago

wholesome story :)

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[–] Who (5146) 3 years ago

It does. I don’t think it is a show for kids under 16, maybe even not for under 18 yos if the kids are insecure and look up to pop culture icons too much.

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[–] MartyDeniro (4185) 3 years ago

If even with the OD (and now it looks like another one), the depiction of Rue's addiction leaves out most of the ugly side. Most of the time, she looks and acts like just another kid who uses drugs.

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[–] Who (5146) 3 years ago

Plus Zendaya is a fashion icon and overall “it” girl right now with teens. This reminds me of the “heroin chic” supermodels of the 1990s.

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[–] DMT (4483) 3 years ago

the heroin chic supermodels of the 90s were a trillion times hotter and more sexy than the modern fatty mcbumbalaty "models" they got these days lmfao

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[–] Who (5146) 3 years ago

I think they were a backlash to all the tall, athletic, beach volleyball player type models of 1980s.

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[–] DMT (4483) 3 years ago

yeah the 1980s models were even hotter than the 90s ones. but these modern fat ones make me cringe. models are supposed to make you look at the cloths and sell em not make u look away disgusted by all the fat rolls

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[–] BourbonKing (5788) 3 years ago

The 80s models were plastered with pastel colored makeup and hair-bear styles that could provide shade from a Nuclear sunset.

Give me 70s models with low cut t-shirts, exposed shoulders, and hip hugging dolphin shorts (Cheryl Tiegs, Cheryl Ladd, Susan Somers, Susan Anton, Lynda Carter, etc.).

The 90s almost returned to the glory days of natural bodies and thicc hips but then got darker as the decade progressed because Gurrl Rock and being anti-glamorous was a kinda cool even though it was trying to be just as popular as being glam.

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[–] Tongue (496) 2 years ago

Rue does not really depict a hardcore junkie that well. We are supposed to believe she is a hardcore opiate addict in season 2 but she really doesn’t act like one. She just comes off as a mentally Ill teen that binges on drugs occasionally

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[–] BourbonKing (5788) 3 years ago

This series has a penchant for being a bit too dark for may tastes. I'm not sure why but it feels like the writers don't want us to like the main characters but rather pity them for being so self-destructive. I think they go overboard with that effort.

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[–] DMT (4483) 2 years ago

yeah it glorifies fentanyl which isn't even a good opiate. its just cheap and the only thing serious addicts can afford to avoid getting sick with low funds. that drug is insanely strong and deadly but offers almost no euphoria.

its the end of the road in a drug addicts downward spiral. that pills get u addicted, then comes heroin when u cant afford the big pharma shit, then when ur tolerance is so high the heroin cost goes from 100$ to 1000$ a day u switch to fentanyl as a last resort

if u are gonna put any opiate on a pedestal to glorify it should be dilaudid aka hydromorphone. now that shit is pretty rad. its more euphoric than oxy or Vicodin and doesnt have the ichy side effects u get with those other drugs. its very clean high unlike most opiates it has an energetic feeling instead of a downer (for me at least) my friends sugar momma gave me some old pills she had left over from 2009 when they still prescribed that shit like candy. never was a big fan of opioids but did like that stuff

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