alcoholics, sexaholics, shopaholics.

Over at Salon.com, Laura Miller talks about addiction and two new books that explore it all. The quote that stuck out to me the most:

"They're alcoholics, meth fiends, crack heads, compulsive gamblers and overeaters and shoplifters. They beat the odds, then relapse at the moment things seem to be going their way. They congratulate themselves on kicking one drug while kidding themselves that they're not getting hooked on something else."

Sad, but probably true. I guess we all need something, right? If it's not A, it's B.