Marie Winn Drug Addiction

In her essay “ Television Addiction”, Marie Winn considers television viewing as a serious addiction comparing them to drug and alcohol addiction. So according to her the television experience gets us into an enjoyable and inactive mental so that we ignore the worries and the concerns of the real world. . The various examples the author points out how the “small Screen “ may influence people’s live also The different negative effect of watching TV. For instance she states that heavy viewers tend to ignore all other activities in order to spend countless hours in front the “tube” therefore. The lives of these people become as imbalanced and disordered as a drugs addiction. I think the article is wrong on how television can be like a drug addiction because it does not have the same devastating effect as alcohol and drugs such as family problem and even something major like death. Furthermore television can actually have some benefits such as educating and reliving stress.

There are many stories that show on the new that people overdose on drugs and cannot keep their mind focus so they start doing bad things without even realizing it. They cant even keep their mind focused the Author states that “A heroin addict for instance leads a damage life: his increasing need for heroin in increasing dose prevents him from working from maintaining relationships from developing In human ways” the author tries to give examples on what defines addiction. She does not give us any evidence of why she believes that a television is like an addictive drug. I feel that alcohol addiction is a totally different matter and is a problem face everyday in the live of many