Portrayals Of Drug Abuse

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Drug abuse is the central issue in three works--the film Less Than Zero, and in the books Prozac Nation and In Search of Respect. Each presents individuals or groups of individuals who are alienated from their time and place in society. Drug use is the way these individuals deal with their alienation, or rather, avoid having to deal with it and instead escape into another mental realm

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"Drug abuse is the central issue in three works--the film Less Than Zero, and in the books Prozac Nation and In Search of Respect. Each presents individuals or groups of individuals who are alienated from their time and place in society. Drug use is the way these individuals deal with their alienation, or rather, avoid having to deal with it and instead escape into another mental realm. This "escape" is not to a better existence, and indeed, all three works suggest that the drug existence is a hellish one. The film depicts drug use among the wealthier class, featuring a group of young people in Beverly Hills. Elizabeth Wurtzel in Prozac Nation is also a young person, but from a different social class and with a different family background leaving her effectively on her own at too young an age. The minorities in the barrio in In Search of Respect turn ..."

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