How to Speak to Teenagers about Alcohol with Paul Dillon
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
With schoolies fast approaching, you might be thinking about what you should say to your teenager about alcohol. NOBODY in Australia is more experienced on this topic than Paul Dillon. For the last three decades he has travelled around Australia (and the world!) visiting schools to teach them about the dangers of alcohol and drugs.
Many of us dread this conversation...for years...particularly if we were heavy drinkers ourselves. But Paul's approach is similar to ours on the podcast. He is not trying to tell kids to not drink or do drugs. He is instead equipping them to do so as safely as possible.
How should they act in an emergency?
Does eating bread or pulling a sickie sober you up?
And should you ever put a mate to sleep if they are hammered?
These are just some of the questions that Paul will answer over the course of our chat.
The truth is - he is a fountain of wisdom on the exact topic Vic and Hame know the least about and we are hugely grateful he sat down with us to help you all too!
Notes
Drug and Alcohol Research and Training (DARTA) website: https://darta.net.au/
Paul's Instagram: @dillonpauldarta
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Paul Dylan and this is sober awkward. |
| 0:03.5 | The cattle's boiled, Vic. |
| 0:05.0 | Great, perfect timing. Just a dash of milk for me, please, mate. |
| 0:10.8 | Here you go. Should we get started then? |
| 0:18.7 | Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and said, I'm never drinking again, |
| 0:22.7 | and then found yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by happy hour? |
| 0:26.5 | Are you wondering why everyone else can stop at one, |
| 0:29.1 | while you head to a dodgy after party with a weird bloke called Disco Dave? |
| 0:33.0 | If so, it might be time to take a deeper look at your relationship with your reliable social crutch, |
| 0:38.5 | alcohol. |
| 0:39.7 | On each episode, we'll investigate our own dysfunctional dealings with booze and find out if it's |
| 0:44.7 | possible to stop this deeply ingrained habit before things get too messy. |
| 0:48.9 | Yep, we're going to open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking stories to help you understand |
| 0:53.8 | why waking up from |
| 0:54.7 | a booze coma each weekend with a kebab sticking out of your top pocket might actually be negatively |
| 0:59.5 | impacting your health. Hamish and I are here to delve into what it's like being sober, an unwanted |
| 1:05.8 | warts and all look into why giving up those cheeky pints or putting down those mummy wines will make you feel happier, |
| 1:12.5 | help your anxiety and mental health, |
| 1:14.6 | and turn you into the most sparkly, authentic version of you. |
| 1:17.8 | Won't that mean I become boring, though, Vic? |
| 1:19.7 | Well, Hamish, we'll just have to wait and see. |
| 1:22.3 | I'm Victoria Vanstone. |
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