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🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T TOUCH ALCOHOL. Matthew Perry shares his experience with alcohol use disorder.
Matthew Perry was an American and Canadian actor, creator, writer, producer and author. Best known for his role as Chandler Bing on the NBC television sitcom Friends. Perry suffered from severe addictions to drugs and alcohol. In his memoirs, Perry wrote that he became an alcoholic at age 14. Through his recovery, he became an advocate for rehabilitation and a spokesperson for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals. In 2013, Perry received the Champion of Recovery Award from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. In 2022, he released his memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. He passed away on Oct. 28 2023.
At least one in ten Americans meet the criteria for either alcohol abuse or alcohol dependence; which we now call 'alcohol use disorder."
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0:35.0 | Somebody comes up to me and says, I can't stop drinking. Can you help me? |
0:40.0 | I can say yes and follow up and do it. That's the best thing. And I've said this for a long |
0:48.8 | time when I die I don't want friends to be the first thing that's mentioned I want that to be the first |
0:54.6 | thing to mention and I'm gonna live the rest of my life proving that. |
0:57.7 | Most people when they drink they feel a little kind of queasy and a little silly and then they stop. |
1:06.5 | But for me, that's what happened. |
1:08.4 | Want more and more and more and more. |
1:11.7 | You start partying with your friends, but you notice that your friends stop |
1:16.1 | and switch to coffee at 11 o'clock at night, or maybe your friend goes, no, you know what, I've had enough, |
1:20.8 | I'm gonna have a glass of water but you you don't stop |
1:23.6 | I was the last girl at the bar going come on let's have Zambuka shots at this point I didn't know what an end was an end was |
1:30.8 | and end was me just going to bed. So that's not normal. |
1:36.7 | My relationship with alcohol was different |
1:38.6 | from that of my peers because I would be the last person to leave. |
1:43.0 | I was immediately sneaking drinks. |
1:45.0 | I was the one who was throwing up and blacking out |
1:48.0 | when everyone else knew what time it was to go home. |
1:50.0 | And it, there was nothing really sexy or romantic or rock and roll about it was just |
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