July 2011
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Talking ‘bout my Generation
“I changed my mind.” Those will be my last words, no doubt, if I ever give in to my recurring ground rush and jump out of a 30-story window. Although it would come out more like, “I changed my miiiiiiiiiiiii……” I wonder if those were Keith Moon’s last words. The drummer for the Who, whose signature lyric was “I hope I die before I get old,” died at the age of 32 from an overdose of the ...
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All Apologies
So begins another season of Celebrity Rehab. First let me say that I think Drew Pinsky, the Doctor of All Media, is a sincere man who cares about his patients and has probably done more than anyone since Betty Ford to de-stigmatize alcoholism and drug addiction. Second let me say that VH-1’s talent bookers are bottom-feeders and do him — and us — no service by stocking the rehab with...
Addiction in the News. Again.
From the New York Times, July 11 2011: There is an age-old debate over alcoholism: is the problem in the sufferer’s head — something that can be overcome through willpower, spirituality or talk therapy — or is it a physical disease, one that needs continuing medical treatment in much the same way as, say, diabetes or epilepsy? Increasingly, the medical establishment is putting its weight...
