We think drugs make us interesting when in fact they make us boring

Addiction knows no class, no gender, no race nor religion. All it wants is to feast on us. 

I first became aware of Cat Marnell in February 2012.

Whitney Houston had just been found dead in the bathtub of her Beverly Hilton hotel, a drug overdose suspected, and the internet was drowning in think-pieces about Houston’s tragic inability to stay sober.