We learned today that the Dateline Special Report will air Friday, July 29, barring any breaking news event. We are free to tell anybody, and the NBC publicity wheels are grinding into motion. We still don't know what they'll call the show, but I'm betting that Addiction in America has bitten the dust. This turned out to be much a more personal profile than I think any of us anticipated.

It has been three years, almost to the day, since we agreed to participate in the show, and we've been waiting for the air date for what seems like forever. If I remember correctly, they wrapped the editing last November.