In my Women and Addiction class we watched a film called Spin the Bottle. It is about drinking drinking in college. Very fascinating look into college life and why students feel the need or have the desire to drink. I don't understand why this film isn't shown in every single freshman orientation to both the incoming students and their parents. It should be then and in high school. Why isn't this film in every high school being watched by all of their students? I think I'll be making a call to my step-daughter's high school about it.

I try very hard to understand people with different views on things than I do. I'm finding this to be increasingly difficult, especially on this issue. I have never been a big drinker, the three times in my life I've been drunk I got sick and spent the night talking to God on the porcelain phone. Any fun I may have had those evenings was not worth the price I paid later on. I vividly remember crawling on the floor while begging God to let me make it to the bathroom before I puked so I wouldn't have to clean up my own puke or, on one occasion when I was drinking to escape my life, to just help me make it through the night because I was so trashed I wasn't sure if I would wake up. Many of the students recount similar stories after a night of drinking but "Hey, I had fun at the party." I just don't get this. I don't get going out and "drinking to get drunk" three nights a week every week. The film talked about the reasons kids give as to why they drink and it is just so sad. To feel powerful, to feel sexy, to fit in, to be a man because "the more you drink the more of a man you are." What the hell are we doing to our kids?!?!?!

Here's a clip from the film:



Again I ask, what the hell are we doing to our kids?