To the issue of countering the pro-drug content of modern pop music

The article considers the pro-narcotic content of modern rap music, examines the ways in which musical creative work influences the formation of narcotic programming, which is especially dangerous for minors and adolescents. The article substantiates the position that the formation of a certain mental attitude to drug use is not a one-step act, but it is a time-stretched process in which culture, subculture, including music of a certain orientation, makes the first try of psychoactive substance under certain conditions as a logical step. The conclusion is argued about the insufficiency of countering the existence of pro-drug content in art by the method of prohibitions and punishments, about the need to consolidate the efforts of all government agencies and society in whole in «breakup» the existing pro-drug cultural area.