The impact on youth behavior of pop and rock stars favouring and using drugs is hardly so unambiguous as could be concluded from the report. Pop and rock stars can rather be seen as persons continuing the mission of traditional shamans. Numerous studies show that only a small proportion of young people experimenting with drugs remain for a longer time prisoners of the lifestyle where drugs play a dominant role. Most of them quit the use after a short time and the major part of those who continue using drugs stop it later when faced with important changes and new possibilities in their lives. Then the friends, studies, work and starting a family come to play a vital role.
Drugs are, indeed, combated above all where the prerequisites for a good youth are created.
Efforts at penetrating youth culture will only create more alienated forms of youth subcultures. What is vital in youth culture is that it is young people's own culture, and thus it is a bit strange to us adults. Only in this way youth culture can best serve young people's need to pull away from adults, as well as young persons' growth and development of own identity. There is a risk that the drug war will escalate in a harmful way if we approach these problems imprudently. This might aggravate juxtapositions and hamper the exchange of opinions between youth and adults.