Comments on: Stupidest New Website

By: Hallie

Hallie — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:59:49 +0000

I just went from nearly laughing myself into a coma at the Phyllis Willis-Barbour thing, to visiting this site and subsequently wanting to go on a 1 A.M. shooting spree, all in the span of 5 minutes. You are good, Sister! xoxo

By: Jaimi

Jaimi — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 01:21:21 +0000

Fucking seriously????? Ugh. Ugh. UGH. This is just too much and I’m too angry about this to be coherent, I don’t even care. Humor certainly has it’s place (particularly of the gallows pole variety) but this is just revolting, should not exist, etc. UGH.

By: MG

MG — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:59:38 +0000

Is this a joke? If not – this is total bullshit. Recovering from an addiction is serious business not a fucking tabloid-esque site, a la perez hilton. WTF are they thinking.

By: kate

kate — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:04:31 +0000

no hilda, you’re right. my family was really badly scarred by heroin use, but my parents let me experiment with drinking and light drug use so that i’d know my limits and never go the way of the needle or the pipe. they were honest with me when i was old enough (although even earlier would have been better) and told me the problems our family had were caused by addiction, contracted disease and an addict’s self-loathing.

By: firefly

firefly — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:55:22 +0000

I really hope this is an early April Fools joke.

By: hilda

hilda — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:29:13 +0000

a former boyfriend of mine used to be addicted to heroine and as a result got infected with hiv. he recoverded, but his live had lost all meaning. he kept all this to himself, just his mother and sister knew. after a few years with the disease, he commited suicide and i miss him ever since.
there is no glamour in substance abuse, but i can see why so many people are drawn to it. why they get trapped by it.

all i can think of, is that parents, teachers, friends and family… need to educate the kids better about this subject.
they should defenitely speak of the fun part, of the initial glamour, because, let’s be honest, partying is hardly fun to most of us when we are sober when all the others are drugged or drunk. we should tell our kids about peer pressure, and help them build enough confidence so they can resist to take a puff or so if someone offers. we should admit that many drugs won’t make you physically dependent, but that you can become mentally dependent by all of them and by various reasons. we should inform them how much violence is used in country’s that produce drugs, such as afganistan and colombia. we should tell them about the live of prostitution, crime and begging that many addicts face. about the damage it can do to someone’s health.
maybe i am too naive to think this will make a difference, but we can give it a try.

By: danno

danno — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:54:50 +0000

Jesus Christ Andra. Get it together with your faulty posting and shiz. I know a good recovery site you should peruse. 😉 I kid.

By: danno

danno — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:47:36 +0000

This might have began as a good idea. Somewhere along the way it was tweaked/spiced up by a co-writer, site manager, and/or marketing exec. Then everything went to hell. They are obviously cashing in on the gossip site obsession that many of us, including myself, are buying into. Does it really claim to be a resource for recovering addicts? The layout is so ridiculous that I can’t even choose an actual article to read. They lost me from the get-go.

By: Suebob

Suebob — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:30:48 +0000

Household Hints: How to remove those pesky vomit and shit stains!
Astrology: The Stars Influence What Kind of Addict You Will Be (Hint: keep Scorpios away from the p0rn!)
Beauty: Dental Implants for the Recovering Meth-head
and other tasteful features.

By: daisy

daisy — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:41:12 +0000

as the mother of a heroin addict i find the site awful. to me it looks like it sensationalizes drug use. i read the article about tom arnolds stupid sister and was appalled. what is wrong with people? my son is 22 and every day it’s like he dies again. it is the worst thing in the world to endure. you cannot imagine it unless you are going through it. our lives are forever wrecked because of this disease and i hate people that glamourize it.