A Controversial New Cure for Alcohol Dependence - Katie Herzog - #993

Talk to me about your relationship with alcohol. Yeah. Oh gosh, it's a complicated question. So my relationship with alcohol started very young. I started drinking or I had my first drink when I was in middle school. I don't know if this is something that twelve year olds do these days, but uh about back in my day, twelve year olds drank, or at least they did in my school. And I I loved it. I loved it from the very beginning. Um even before I was sort of old enough to appreciate the the taste of a good glass of wine or a cold beer.

I like the effect. And so I drank in in high school. I drank more in college and by the time I was out of college, I was a barfly. So I spent a lot of time sitting on barstools from four PM until late at night, oftentimes with

Men who were the'cause these were the sort of people who would who would be at bars drinking during the day. Like men in their fifties and sixties. These were these were my people. Um, and I I lived like that for a really long time. I was a party girl, so I was a lot of fun back in those days. I gradually got less fun the more my drinking accelerated and by the time I I quit. In my late thirties, early forties I wasn't a party girl anymore. Most of my drinking was done solo and in secret. Um

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