[ SECRET POST #357 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #357 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Posting for Liz. Also: whoaaaaaaa, all 50. That's kind of amazing.

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #051.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Saturday, December 29th, 2007.
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Comments

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[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

You're very right, and I'm sorry you have to deal with real addiction in your family. The portrayal of House's "addiction" has bothered me from the start. House isn't an addict: he's dependent on painkillers. This is not a bad or wrong thing - I'm dependent on my thyroid hormone medication to stop me getting thyroid growths and possibly cancer again, but that doesn't make me an addict. House depends on painkillers to kill his pain - doesn't make him an addict.

Also, Vicodin is a stupid drug for them to choose as his main "addiction". He shouldn't be taking more than 8 a day or he'll destroy his liver over time (because of the paracetamol/acetaminophen, not because of the opiates). There's plenty of other more appropriate painkillers available for chronic pain, maybe with Vicodin for breakthrough pain. Wilson, in particular, would know this. Every time they have a storyline involving House's "addiction", it drives me mental.

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The whole thing about House's "addiction" being something that Needs To Stop strikes me as being war-on-drugs propaganda. :/ But the last time I tried to explain this (politely) to another House fan, I got told that I should shut up and stop criticizing the writers because I knew nothing about what addiction is really like. uh.

I used to really like the show. The Tritter arc killed it dead for me, although I kept watching afterwards because...of fannish inertia, I guess. I didn't find out until recently how poor a choice Vicodin was for House's drug (because of the aforementioned liver issue), but I always thought the "addiction" issue was handled badly.