Charlie Sheen

It is a vicious cycle that is evolving around Charlie Sheen and we as the global audience are now becoming part of it. From his recent interviews he by no means apologises for drug taking, even describing what he was doing as ‘radical’. He does now claim he his clean but in effect that has little significant on what has been said already. Young teenagers and adolescents watching his antics will see him as not only a justification for drug taking but as a way of making it cool again. Here in Ireland media stars such as Gerry Ryan and Katie French have died from drugs so there is less of an idol image associated with it. But from what we are seeing from Hollywood, people like Sheen can do it when they liked, never fear health consequences and indeed evoke new found fame out of it. The vehicles that report what has doing are the major culprits though. They’re seems to be little social or editorial understanding. If a particular media outlet reaches young people then the editorial staffs is not censoring reports of what has doing. While there is a need to report the news exactly as it happened, not all the details as in Sheen’s case need to be highlighted. Charlie Sheen is clearly an addict, or recovering addict and when he his given that much publicity he obtains cult status. The antics of stars like Charlie Sheen are what many describe as the norm in Hollywood and that is fine, if that is the way they want to live their lives then they are perfectly entitled to. But when that lifestyle which by the vast majority would view as unhealthy where drug taking is normal than please do not plaster it over our television screens where young minds are tantalised by the rock star lifestyle.