Has Lindsay Lohan Forgotten Alcohol Awareness?

Lindsay Lohan is one of those stars who just can’t get out of the news. First she’s shoplifting, then she’s in jail, then she’s drinking, then she’s back on probation. And now it looks like Lindsay Lohan is drinking again. Boy if ever somebody needed alcohol awareness classes badly it’s Lindsay Lohan.

But maybe all celebrities should be taking an alcohol education class. Let’s just require them to take an 8 hour alcohol education awareness class before they are allowed in the screen actor’s guild. Crazy though that seems, don’t you think that having them learn the consequences of excessive alcohol and drug use would reduce the amount of abuse in Hollywood? Oh sure you couldn’t stop them all, but maybe a little alcohol awareness would have kept Robert Downey, Jr. from being such a train wreck. Or maybe a little drug education would have prevented the senseless death of River Phoenix?

Maybe I’m off my rocker, but how could it possibly hurt?

Do Celebrities Need Alcohol Awareness Classes?

How many times have you heard this story on TMZ or Entertainment tonight. Nick Nolte gets a DUI. Or maybe it’s a basketball player who gets out of control for being too drunk in a club. Or maybe it’s a female star who checks into rehab.

Maybe celebrities drink or do drugs more than us regular people or maybe they do it the same or less. The point is that when they do it everybody knows about it. And our kids and teens watch them and consider them role models.

So wouldn’t it make sense for them to try to be a positive role model? Maybe they should talk about how they attended an level 2 alcohol awareness class and talk about the great things they learned there? Or maybe young stars should take a minor in possession class and talk about the helpful information they got in the class?

How could it hurt? It’s no different than talking about hunger in Africa or breast cancer awareness. Just letting your fans know that you’re interested in the issues of underage drinking or DUIs or drug abuse can have a profound effect on the people who follow you and want to emulate you. And how could it possibly hurt?

Even Celebrities Need Alcohol Awareness

Celebrities are often seen at dressing up for award shows, going to parties, entering and exiting restaurants. That’s part of what the paparazzi loves. Then there are the photos of celebrities in alcohol fueled traffic accidents, or falling down drunk on the street or even being arrested for a DUI.

Of course nobody likes to have their picture taking at these embarrassing moments but celebrities who usually try to carefully manage their image like it even less!

An sometimes celebrities have their past haunting them. For example George W. Bush was arrested for a DUI many years ago. He was able to avoid issues with this later in his political career, but it’s still something people have trouble shaking off (think Ted Kennedy).

Probably an alcohol awareness class would be important for every celebrity to take? That way they could understand what happens to them when they drink to much and if they don’t learn about how to cut down on their drinking at least they might learn to curb it where they might get caught. And of course, celebrities are an important role model so it can help how they are perceived by the fans that really look up to them.