Texas Addiction Recovery Blog
Is Stoner Humor Really That Funny?
Yes, the 2000 movie Dude, Where’s My Car? has a funny title. It also, unfortunately, contributes to the long tradition of marijuana-based (stoner) humor in the movies. This humor minimizes what drugs such as marijuana can really do to your life. Abusing substances...
Pulp Fiction’s Perspective on Drugs
When some people might claim that drug and alcohol abuse can’t happen to them, and that such abuse is not part of our culture, they only need to take a look at a few movies. These movies can show them just how wrong they really are. The movie Pulp Fiction provides an...
Fraternities, Sororities, and Substance Use Disorder in the Movies
What is the fascination with movies about substance use disorder in college fraternities and sororities? Do the movies reflect real life, or is real life trying to reflect these movies? Either way, it looks as if we should consider changing the way we depict Greek...
Your Life Is Not Jim Morrison’s Life
“Art imitates life,” is an old expression. We find this statement to be obviously true when it comes to movies that depict real-life people or events. Of course, people often debate whether these movies accurately depict these real-life people and events too. One...
The Destructiveness of Alcohol Abuse
Have you ever seen the movie Leaving Las Vegas? If not, I highly recommend it. The movie stars Nicolas Cage as Ben, a man who is depressed and struggling with severe alcohol problems. He moves to Las Vegas with the intention of drinking himself to death. He moves in...
Stephen King’s Scary Story Has a Happy Ending
We’ve been talking a lot about famous writers and substance use disorder lately. We’d be neglecting our duty if we didn’t mention one of the most famous writers ever, a writer who has also had a pretty famous drug addiction. That author is Stephen King. We probably...
Fear and Loathing and Substance Use Disorder
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.” --Hunter S. Thompson So said the late journalist Hunter S. Thompson. He was a journalist best known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a novel first published in...
Depicting Drug Use in the 1960s
Drugs were everywhere in the 1960s, right? At first, it certainly seems that way. Writer Ken Kesey took a psychedelically painted school bus to travel across the United States and use LSD with his friends in 1964. This journey forms the basis of Tom Wolfe’s 1968 book...
Truman Capote and Image
When Truman Capote was staying in Kansas to research his famous nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, he allegedly held cocktail parties in his hotel room. Capote was also known for throwing the famous Black and White Ball in New York in 1966. Many prominent writers,...
Female Writers and Alcoholism
Of course, we all know that men aren’t the only ones who grapple with drug addiction or alcohol abuse. We all probably know women who struggle or have struggled with such problems. There have been several famous women who have had such problems, including some famous...
