House M.D.: Known Unknowns (2009)
Season 6, Episode 6
8/10
A question
19 November 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Now that we are in the post-Nancy Reagan era, and recovery from addiction is no longer so simplistic as "Just Say No," and is no longer a political ax to grind, could we just occasionally have something realistic about recovery on one of the smartest shows on TV? When Wilson joined House at the table in Wilson's hotel room, it appeared that all the little hotel mini-bar bottles of alcohol were empty, and Wilson said nothing. OK, House was primarily using Vicodin, but after a stint in rehab (where he may or may not have been drinking alcohol at a hospital function), no one is mentioning abstinence from all drugs, whether legal or illegal, whether solid or liquid or gas? _General Hospital_ did better than this in the early 1980s. Unless this is expressly confronted in future scripts, there's a big House-shaped boozing elephant in the room that the writers are ignoring, y'all.
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