I totally agree with you! Having seen close up the reality of addiction, I have a hard time romanticizing it. There's also the problem of it never going away. Even if the addict gets clean/sober, the addiction is there, forever and that has to be taken into account (though I think it has the potential to be very effective, like Remus's lycanthropy).
I don't have any problem with the *use* of drugs or alcohol or any other sort of mind-altering thing in fic. The problem for me is when it crosses the line into addiction, because then, as you say, everything in the addict's life eventually falls by the wayside except for his obsession with the drug of choice. Of course, a fic doesn't have to be written that way, but if the author tells me a character is an addict, I'm going to expect him to behave like an addict.
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Date: 2004-10-29 02:02 pm (UTC)I don't have any problem with the *use* of drugs or alcohol or any other sort of mind-altering thing in fic. The problem for me is when it crosses the line into addiction, because then, as you say, everything in the addict's life eventually falls by the wayside except for his obsession with the drug of choice. Of course, a fic doesn't have to be written that way, but if the author tells me a character is an addict, I'm going to expect him to behave like an addict.