Competition Freaks, the Super Bowl and Alcoholism
Competition Freaks, the Super Bowl and Alcoholism
The link between winning and alcoholism proves elusive for the media
In a recent piece in the Los Angeles Times, "Competition Freaks,"writer Marianne Szegedy-Maszak addressed the question of what motivates those who just have to win. By the fourth paragraph, she connected out-of-control soccer moms screaming at referees, those banned from playing family board games because they ruin the entire evening when they lose, obsessive compulsive disorder, narcissism, road rage, drunk driving and addiction. Hoping she would explore the connection further, I looked for more mentions of DUI or alcohol/other-drug addiction somewhere"anywhere"in the following 48 paragraphs. Alas, I looked in vain.
In asking, "How many people do we walk over to be successful?"and "When ...
