Alcoholism is in it. It comes first. Alcohol is our most abused drug, and our most respectable. Alcoholics fill our offices, shopping centers, subdivisions and country clubs. They teach school and perform surgery.
Cocaine addicts fill our jails.
Alcoholics land there only when they get busted for DUI, and unless they kill somebody, they don't stay very long. So when I talk of the rest of us, I mean those of us who nod our heads dismayingly about Strawberry while we sit on our decks or in our living rooms and have that drink we absolutely, positively deserve. And the second, and the third, and however many it takes until we can't count them or don't care. I mean the rest of us who drink like this and can't imagine not drinking like this. If you drink like this, you have much in common with Darryl Strawberry.