The Problem of Normalizing Drugs Throughout the Music Industry

Recently a rapper by the name of Lil Peep passed due to an overdose. Shortly after, waves of critics started to use Lil Peep as an example of why it is not cool to do drugs, or glorify them. In response, many people recognized that while Peep did abuse and glorify drugs, he did not do it to be cool, he did it because he was in a poor mental state. Both of these arguments are partly correct. Almost all of the time, when a person is abusing drugs, they are not just doing it to do it, they are doing it to suppress or avoid certain thoughts or past experiences. One must realize that these rappers, when recording or tweeting about doing drugs, are also influencing millions of impressionable teens to suppress using drugs. Not a lot can be done, and that is alright, because these artists can do what they want,  but I just hope this trend of Xanax popping can cease.