Prognosis

Here's What Addiction Specialists Say About ‘The White Lotus’

Parker Posey as Victoria Ratliff in The White Lotus.

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Hello, everyone. It’s Damian here in New York. As prescription drug misuse snowballs into a major plot point in The White Lotus — no spoilers, I promise — I wondered what addiction specialists made of the show. But first …

Kenneth Morford raised an eyebrow in the final minutes of the season premiere of The White Lotus, when Parker Posey, with the lilt of a Carolina aristocrat, told her husband, “Don’t worry — I took a lorazepam.”