Editing Goth subculture (section)

===Media and academic commentary===
The [[BBC]] described academic research that indicated that goths are "refined and sensitive, keen on poetry and books, not big on drugs or anti-social behaviour".<ref name="news.bbc.co.uk">{{cite news |first=Denise |last=Winterman |title=Upwardly gothic |publisher= BBC News Magazine |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4828230.stm}}</ref> Teens often stay in the subculture "into their adult life", and they are likely to become well-educated and enter professions such as engineering, medicine, or law.<ref name="news.bbc.co.uk"/> The subculture carries on appealing to teenagers who are looking for meaning and for identity. The scene teaches teens that there are difficult aspects to life that you "have to make an attempt to understand" or explain.<ref>{{cite news|title=The devil in your family room|date=16 December 1998|first=Fiona|last=Morgan|work=[[Salon (website)|Salon]]|url=http://www.salon.com/1998/12/15/15hot_2/|access-date=25 July 2014}}</ref>

''[[The Guardian]]'' reported that a "glue binding the [goth] scene together was [[Recreational drugs|drug use]]"; however, in the scene, drug use was varied. Goth is one of the few subculture movements that is not associated with a single drug,<ref name="theguardian.com" /> in the way that the [[Hippie]] subculture is associated with [[cannabis]] and the [[Mod subculture]] is associated with [[amphetamines]]. A 2006 study of young goths found that those with higher levels of goth identification had higher drug use.{{sfn|Young|Sweeting|West|2006}}