“Nuts,” or “alcoholic?
“I always thought she was a little nuts but I never suspected she was using drugs.â€
So wrote “Help Me in California”to Annie’s Mailbox, July 26, 2008, regarding her 40-something stepmother who was caught red-handed with cocaine and methamphetamine. She wrote she was baffled, particularly since her stepmother had two young children. After all, how could a mother of two be involved with coke and speed?
The fact that the stepmother has two young children is irrelevant. When crazy behaviors are evident, it’s usually alcohol or other-drug addiction, regardless of responsibilities”even to children.
The headline of the piece was, “Stepmom showing signs of major addiction.”Sorry, but this is not a “sign.”If she’s using coke and meth and has two young children, she is a full-blown addict. When dealing with addiction, it’s far better to call a spade a spade than to couch our words in euphemisms.