The purpose with this paper is to investigate how drugs and addiction are depicted in teenage films and the main focus is on how this theme and its social setting is brought across through filmic devices, such as editing, sound and lighting techniques. The question imposed in the paper is ”How describes druguse in Swedish teenagefilms?”. The method for the inquiry style analysis, employed on three Swedish films (G 1983, Sökarna 1993 and Under Ytan 1997). Literature about drugs- and youthfilms is used to contextualize and historicize the analysis.