In today’s society we are surrounded by the media, we can access just about anything at our fingertips. Most of that which we chose to access is impacting us more than we are willing to admit. For example, I scroll through my social media applications and see countless pictures from parties of groups of friends drunk or high having what appears to be a great time. I spend my weekends working and I’ve never been much of a partier so it’s hard to not to see those images and feel almost jealous because it all looks so glamorous from the outside. I quickly remember, however, that the risks, consequences and realities of that night would not be worth the few “cute” pictures they got out of it. Media only shows you one, very biased, much edited version of something and it’s our job as the consumer to realize that. For many people, our youth mainly, it’s very difficult to see past what is at the surface of media. Music in pop culture ranges in topics from sex, drugs to alcohol, with very little in between. All you hear on the pop radio stations are songs about sexualizing women and getting messed up with the use of alcohol and/or drugs. Alcohol is glamorized in every form of media there is, so it’s not shocking that we have such high rates of underage drinking and alcohol related deaths. There isn’t enough proper education on alcohol and everywhere you turn there are movies, shows and songs depicting binge drinking and partying. The problem I have with a lot of these movies or shows is that they talk about the party itself but never the safety of it. You never see in movies or shows a designated driver for the night, they rarely even explain how the characters get home. In almost everything it’s just assumed that they get home, or the next scene will just be the next day with no explanation. You also rarely see characters in movies or shows get sick because they drank too