Alcohol and the Armed Forces
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Following on from last week's episode on drinking culture amongst workforces, we wanted to focus on one of the most problematic of them all - the Armed Forces.
Sadly, we are all too aware of the number of ex-vets who struggle with alcohol and drug addictions upon leaving the Army.
However, given neither Hame nor Vic know barely anything about this subject - they have had to call in the big guns!
Two fascinating women with real first hand experiences of this problem.
The first is Helen Bennett who watched her brother Matt struggle with alcoholism for years following a challenging time as a Royal Marine in his early 20s.
And Pam Diamond, an addiction nurse specialist with the Royal Marines Charity with over 30 years of experience.
This episode is not necessarily a funny one - but it is an important one.
We are hugely grateful to both Helen and Pam for sharing their stories with us.
SHOW NOTES
Kae Tempest Tiny Desk Performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqd86is7y54
Royal Marines Charity: https://rma-trmc.org
Combat Stress: https://combatstress.org.uk
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| 0:00.0 | The cattle's boiled, Vic. |
| 0:03.0 | Great, perfect timing. Just a dash of milk for me, please, mate. |
| 0:08.0 | Here you go. Should we get started then? |
| 0:16.0 | Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and said, I'm never drinking again, |
| 0:21.4 | and then found yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by happy hour? |
| 0:25.1 | Are you wondering why everyone else can stop at one, |
| 0:27.8 | while you head to a dodgy after-party with a weird bloke called Disco Dave? |
| 0:31.6 | If so, it might be time to take a deeper look at your relationship |
| 0:34.9 | with your reliable social crutch, alcohol. |
| 0:38.1 | On each episode, we'll investigate our own dysfunctional dealings with booze |
| 0:42.2 | and find out if it's possible to stop this deeply ingrained habit |
| 0:45.4 | before things get too messy. |
| 0:47.5 | Yep, we're going to open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking stories |
| 0:51.1 | to help you understand why waking up from a booze coma each weekend with a kebab sticking out of your top pocket might actually be negatively impacting your health. |
| 1:00.0 | Hamish and I are here to delve into what it's like being sober. An unwanted warts and all look into why giving up those cheeky pints or putting down those mummy wines will make you feel happier, help your anxiety |
| 1:12.1 | in mental health and turn you into the most sparkly authentic version of you. |
| 1:16.5 | Won't that mean I become boring though, Vic? |
| 1:18.4 | Well, Hamish, we'll just have to wait and see. |
| 1:20.9 | I'm Victoria Vanstone. |
| 1:22.6 | I'm Hamish Adams Cairns. |
| 1:24.1 | And this is Sober Awkward. |
| 1:35.8 | So, Vic, no chit-chat this episode. |
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