Some media outlets still allow addiction-related bigotry to be spewed in their paper in 2014 - here is what Andrea Peyser of the NY Post wrote a few days ago: Tatum’s son takes disease-y way out Cops busted Kevin McEnroe, the son of former tennis star John McEnroe and actress Tatum O’Neal, in Manhattan’s East Village last week, authorities said, as he tried to score cocaine and prescription pills like a common junkie. He was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance. Then, folks in the drug-treatment industry came to a rapid conclusion in messages posted on the Web: The young man apparently is the “victim’’ of the genetic disease of drug addiction, which he likely inherited from his mom, O’Neal, who’s been hooked on heroin. Six years ago, she was arrested while trying to buy cocaine and crack on the Lower East Side, then avoided jail time by pleading guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct, paid a $96 fine and agreed to attend a mere two half-day sessions in a drug-treatment program. One thing seems clear: Treating accused drug buyers like helpless sufferers of a “disease’’ only infantilizes them. It doesn’t help them. -END- Apeyser@NYpost is her email. Tell her what YOU think about her uneducated use of the word Junkie in the mainstream media.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:20:56 +0000
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