"The thing about addiction is, it never ends well because eventually whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts to hurt. Still they say you don't kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you're there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurting us, sometimes letting it go hurts even worse."--from Meredith Grey's character from Grey's Anatomy; 2007 "Love/Addiction" episode

In this rerun, a married couple was treated in the ER after accidentally blowing up their apartment building, sparked by the dangerous Crystal Meth lab they were running. The episode wasn't just about drugs, however, but about the way people are addicted to things, to situations, to people. It's Dr. McDreamy’s presence at the top of the stairwell at the end of the show that strikes me the most. You see the love for Meredith in his eyes, clawing at him, it seems, until the need to be with her is visceral. He knows he should let her go home alone, yet he descends the stairs and walks out the hospital with her. She is his poisonous addiction. If you’ve ever been in a relationship like that then the thought of walking away from that kind of connection with someone makes you believe you will actually sink into the ground and disappear. But you don’t, even when the relationship ends.