Dr. House!!!

[Savas]

Okay, trying to be responsible and move my "chatting" over here as requested! :)

Who here has seen the show "House"?

What kind of message do you think they're saying about addiction by making the main character, a brilliant physician, a vicodin addict who feels he isn't an addict, but a pain management patient?

[Savas]

It's funny, he strikes me as a classic obsessive compulsive. His hoarding behavior had more to do with that than his addiction. Then again, a lot of obsessives end up as addicts, so it does come to the same thing.

[avisg]

Savas I think for along time he was questioning whether he was a pain management patient or an addict to. I think he forged script's before the cop came into the picture. Have a good day
Avis

[Savas]

I found it interesting that he didn't start showing classic addict behavior until the police/ law got involved. Up until that time he was a functioning addict. It seemed up in the air to me if he was an addict or a pain management patient.
     But the introduction of a cop abusing the law pushed him over the edge into true addictive behavior. Curious, huh?

[FLaddict]

I think the show tells a few messages. For one House if you watched from the beginning is medicating more than his leg, he also uses them for his broken heart.. He has "terminal uniqueness"' just like any other addict.  
They also show that despite how you feel about drugs or his behavoir at times, he is still a likeable character.  Its kinda like that Big Love on HBO despite if you think poligamy is wrong and immoral, those characters are written so well that you fall in love with them and care about what happens.

[tzt2lady]

I watched it for the first time last night and liked it.   I started watching because I heard the main charater is a vike addict.   Im gonna keep on watching.

[shelby74]

If you haven't watched House from the beginning, you have not seen all that he has gone through being an addict.  They do make light of it at times but they do show the dark side of addiction as well.  He knows he is an addict and it shows his extreme struggle with the pills.  It even showed him in full blown w/d's, in jail, stealing script pads, stealing patients meds, arrested, his friends lives at stake...the whole nine yards.  Addiction is not the whole story anyway.  Yes, it is part of who he is at the moment but I like to concentrate on his many other qualities.  Besides when he struggles with addiction, it makes me feel not so alone.  Hugh Laurie does a brillant job with the character.

[lustforallthingspointless]

yah, its as if they make it ok. they have showed how it destroys relationships, he has been in trouble for it, and suffered reprocussions to some extent... but it also shows how it makes him distant, numb, moody... you know, all the bad things. but hey, its just a show, and I love dr. house!