The Plug-In Drug: Television, Children, And The Family is a book of social criticism written by Marie Winn and published in 1977 by Viking Press.

In it, Winn brought the communications medium of television under withering fire, accusing it of wielding an addictive influence on the very young.

Winn wrote: "The very nature of the television experience apart from the contents of the programs is rarely considered.

"A 25th-anniversary revision was published in 2002, which included new material that was subtitled "Television, Computers, And Family Life".

Winn was even more hostile to the Internet and the World Wide Web than she had been to television itself twenty-five years before.