We treat love as a spiritual or romantic mystery, but we treat drugs as a legal or medical crisis. The index suggests they are two sides of the same coin.
In the lexicon of human experience, few pairings are as simultaneously poetic and clinical as "love" and "drugs." From Plato’s philosophical banquets to the neon-lit hedonism of modern nightclubs, humanity has always sought a catalog—a definitive —to explain why a broken heart hurts like a physical wound, why a new romance feels like a hit of cocaine, and why withdrawal from a person can mirror detoxing from heroin.
Movie Review - 'Love And Other Drugs': A Worthy Prescription