This will be an online feature for you readers of our web pages that will zero in on all issues regarding sobriety.

I was taken back last week when there was an ad for a reality show entitled DWI and felt that they have run out of ideas for TV programs. Finding a stand out drunk driver? I wonder what the criteria is. How many violations? The highest breathalyzer result? The most expensive vehicle totaled?

Although networks are quick to show intoxicated substance abusers and alcoholics (as well as depicting innumerable pot smokers of all ages) they rarely depict a character with long term sobriety (except on police shows where it seems each precinct has one).

Other topics are: petty annoyances in a self help group like the controllers, the 13 steppers, and the filibuster sharers.

Please respond and suggest topics and let's open a dialogue.

Frank Bruni’s column of 2/19/12 in The Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/opinion/sunday/bruni-whitney-houston-and-alcohols-toll.html?_r=1&ref=frankbruni) should be required reading for all sober people if not all people. He brings out the importance of alcohol dependence and how we do not feel it is as dangerous as “powders, capsules and vials.”

If anything, this continues the narrow-minded thinking of the enablers of celebrities. They condone drinking in excess as a right of passage and use of drugs as not unusual (as long as it doesn’t end in scandal or worse per Lindsey, Judy, Marilyn and Elvis). Of course, in all cases, the enablers are on the payroll and they do not want the meal ticket to stop the money rolling in.

As far as the latest celeb death, it is a replay of those in the past with the same hand wringing, tears, and cover ups. These will continue as long as there is a lack of acceptance that alcohol, in volume or mixed with the other drugs, kills.