53 minAlcohol
Famous at 18, in a psych ward at 25
Jonah Marais/Why Don't We
9 conversations
Alcohol
High-functioning drinking, hidden bottles and the double life it takes to keep it going.
Most people in these conversations were not drinking under a bridge. They were drinking in nice kitchens, holding down careers, and doing an enormous amount of daily work to keep anyone from noticing.
They talk about where the bottles went, what they told the people they loved, and how much energy the double life took. Then they talk about the day it stopped working and what they built after it.
The conversations
Every episode about alcohol
53 min
43 minAlcohol
He checked into rehab hours before his wife found out what he did
Tyler Ramsey/Former Bear Stearns
39 minAlcohol
A handle of vodka a day put her in a coma at 30
Adriana/Cirrhosis survivor
39 minAlcohol
A belt was around his neck when the bathroom pole broke
Cormac/Love Island USA, fitness coach
50 minAlcohol
Her kids found her passed out at a 0.47 BAC
Anne/Michigan, seven years sober
42 minGambling addiction
He got high while shopping for his own rehab clothes
Jordan Freeman/In recovery
53 minAlcohol
She drank Listerine when her parents wouldn't let her have alcohol
Caitlin/In recovery
1 hr 10 minAlcohol
She hid bottles everywhere
Sydney McAllister/Sober Syd
1 hr 10 minAlcohol
She shouldn't be alive
Kat/Treatment centre owner, nine years sober
Elsewhere in the library
Other things people come here for
- Family and relationshipsThe marriages that survived it, and the ones that did not.18
- Rehab and treatmentTwenty-five treatment centres, one that finally worked, and why.17
- Mental health and suicideThe nights people planned to end it, and what stopped them.14
- Gambling addictionThe addiction that leaves no track marks and no smell on your breath.14
- Sober living and habitsThe unglamorous daily mechanics of staying clean.10
- Debt and moneySix figures gone in an afternoon, and the years spent paying it back.10
Alcohol is one of 16 topics every episode of Nothing's Off The Table is tagged against. Search the whole library.
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