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Quotation of the Day for July 9, 2013"I've taken anti-depressants for around 20 years," proclaims another journalist recently in "Getting Sober with Zoloft," an all-too-hackneyed contemporary coming-of-age story: the rueful user of nonprescription drugs (e.g. alcohol) who becomes a pious user of prescription drugs (i.e. Zoloft and others). "My only regret about taking (these) medications," she proudly concludes her piece, "is not having done so sooner--in fact, I wonder if I might have skipped addiction entirely had these drugs been available in my teens." What she does not admit, however obvious it may seem, is that she has simply swapped one addiction for another addiction, at least equally powerful. ... Nobody writes with smug complacency about solving life problems by picking up a glass of wine. (Picture it: "I have been drinking for 20 years and my only regret is that these drinks were not available in my teens!"). It does not breed the self-congratulation, the back-patting genre literature of redemption that we so often see in recovery memoirists. Social drinkers, by and large, are not arrogant. They are curious and humble. They know they are attackable. They know they have an Achilles heel. They know there is a crack in anything--but in the words of Leonard Cohen, that's where the light comes in, that's where the light comes in. - Cristina Nehring, from the essay In Defense of Drunks. [http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/07/in_defense_of_drunks_the_rest_of_us_just_trade_wine_for_anti_depressants.single.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jul. 3, 2013  |
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