I'm Addic....I'm Addicted to you....

There are lots of things in this world that everyone is obsessed with. Losing weight. Celebrities. Justin Bieber. Something else I noticed that everyone is obsessed with lately is Addiction. 

There is a ridiculous amount of shows that center around the topic of Addiction. Mainly alcohol and drug addiction. There is Intervention on A&E. Addicted on TLC. I saw an ad for a show on addiction on CNN. What is with everyone's obsession with other people's addictions? I understand the curiosity because as someone who does not do drugs, sure I'm a little curious how they work and what happens when you take them. Clearly you get addicted. But when did this obsession to find more information come about?

Perhaps this is the only way people can experience what happens when taking these drugs without actually harming themselves. I have no idea. The only thing I do know is that everyone seems to really want to tune-in, and find out. 

It's kind of interesting that people are getting equally addicted to watching programs that revolve around other people's addictions. Maybe there should be shows on how much people are addicted to watching television. Would that even get the point across? Which brings me to another point (in case anyone is wondering about the direction of this blog...I'm not sure. It's going to be kind of a stream of consciousness kind of day. And you're going to like it).

The point, as far as I can see, of most of these addiction shows, is to show you how harmful the effects of drugs/drinking can be. Not only to the person doing them but also to the people around them and how substance abuse can basically destroy their life. Shouldn't that be some kind of warning to all the viewers? DO NOT DO DRUGS. YOU WILL BE SICK. YOU WILL DIE. YOU WILL HURT EVERYONE YOU LOVE. And yet, producers for these shows keep finding more and more people to be a part of the show. 

Not to mention they keep finding more people to be on Intervention. How is that? Do the drug users spend all their money on drugs so much so that they don't have a television and have never seen the show? How do they keep finding people to be on Intervention and not have any idea they're going to be intervened by everyone they know and love. Riddle me that.(I'm aware that most of these people are probably so drugged up they have no idea what is going on. But come on. Not one of them suspects something weird? Or has seen the show at all? Really?)

So back to my earlier point I was trying to make. Clearly watching all of these shows on how addicting drugs and alcohol are and how harmful they can be to every aspect of your life, is not really being very educational. It's possible the shows are being educational in the sense that you might say to yourself "Oh gross, I didn't know that doing meth can make your teeth rot so bad!" (I actually did learn this from watching an episode of True Life). But are people really saying to themselves "Oh wow look at that...I am never doing drugs!" or "Yikes, I don't want drinking to take over my life like that!". Probably not. I'm also pretty sure people are more likely to say "I will never do drugs" than the word 'Yikes'. Obviously these shows are not as educational as they could be, since there seems to be a never ending supply of people to be featured on them.
Clearly this obsession with people's terrible addictions is going to continue until we all find something better to be interested in. Or until Justin Bieber's voice changes. WHAT WILL WE DO THEN???