As you say, you are entitled to your opinion. But you are seeing things in black and white, and you have very strong opinions about her, yet you stopped reading the article 3 paragraphs in. I said that she wasn’t weak; she had a mental illness. Having a mental illness does not make you weak, just like having diabetes…

Your line of thinking is very self-centered: “Well, my life wasn’t great and -I- managed, so why can’t they? They’re weak.”

You seem nice.

Why are you here? So you spent 15 minutes reading an article you just wanted to disparage? You could have stopped after the third paragraph. Nothing you have said is remotely helpful to a mostly productive discussion. Addiction is a disease. Do you understand that or not ? Subsequently, having an addiction does not…

I see so many stories every day about our opiate and heroin epidemic. Hundreds, thousands of lives affected. Where are all the stories about the MILLIONS of alcoholics, the dead and dying moms and dads and sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, who are boozing it up with full approval of everyone out there? Why are…

As a person who has questioned his relationship with alcohol, especially as I’ve grown older, this scares the shit out of me.

No snark: Thank you for this piece. Masterfully reported, incredibly well-written, utterly important.

This is so heartbreaking in so many ways. It reminds me what an absolute blessing the gift of sobriety is.

Sadly, I was able to make an armchair psychologist diagnosis of “bi-polar” before the story reached that point. The signs were all there. Some of our smartest, most brilliant minds suffer from this horrible mental illness. It can help them achieve great things, but at too great of a human cost. Please, if you take…

Sad story, and really hammers home how devastating the effects of alcohol can be, as well as the psychological grip it can have on the individual. Thank you for writing this Dave. Having seen firsthand some of the damage alcohol visits upon not only the user, but families, I wonder why the outcry over tobacco is as…

What a well written article about a truly tragic story. Thanks for this.

Having just spent last week at the hospital detoxing my dad, this is a depressing read. I’d like to think he might actually stop drinking this time, but it is so unlikely.

Here we have an article about monopsony where the author doesn’t bother to define the term and probably doesn’t know what the term means. It means the market has one *buyer* for a particular good, the counterpart of “monopoly” where there is one *seller* for a particular good. (It is not “monopoly-lite, when one…

He’s a good teen

Vigilante teen is a strong black principled teen, and we’ve all seen this movie before.

Vigilante teen is a good teen.

ya

props on the most obscure WWII reference I’ve seen in a Deadspin comment section

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