The Perfect TV Program to Understand the Addicts Your Dealing With

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:15.6	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7 at Dr. Laura.com.
0:25.3	This is going to sound like I'm promoting a TV show and I'm not.
0:32.0	I just think it's so instructive that if you have an addict or an alky in your life, this is the program to watch
0:46.7	to understand and not feel guilty anymore about your dealings with them and their manipulations.
0:56.1	The show is called Nurse Jackie.
1:01.2	And it's years ago, I think it's like six, seven years ago it started, and it went for seven
1:08.5	seasons.
1:09.3	I'm in season six.
1:22.2	And she is vicious and self-centered, manipulative, cold.
1:25.1	Oh, I just love my children.
1:28.4	Doesn't love her kids, doesn't love her husband, doesn't love all her lovers.
1:33.2	She lives for drugs.
1:43.2	Now, the thing they do poorly in this is they make her seem like in spite of the fact that she's popping pills every 20 minutes.
1:51.0	But they always make it seem like there's absolutely no impact on her ability to be a top quality, right on it, brilliant nurse, which is BS.
1:58.7	I mean, I have a glass of wine if I go out to dinner, and I'm feeling it.
2:06.6	I'm feeling it.
2:07.6	I'm feeling it.
2:08.6	There's no question.
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