#97: Drugs on TV

It isn't just PSAs with our brains as a fried egg. Sometimes it's Euphoria's Mouse, a Latino drug dealer with face tattoos who forces a young girl to take fentanyl at knifepoint. Other times it's reruns of Robert Downey Jr. in Less than Zero, or Tupac and Tim Roth in Gridlock'd—characters suffering the predictable consequences of using heroin in the movies: their lives falling apart. But always on our televisions we are given a single story about drugs and those who use & sell them: failu...