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Speaker 1: Hi, guys. I hope you all had a really great

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Speaker 1: want to talk about a topic I've been thinking about

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Speaker 1: greatest for us. I'm bringing on an expert to talk

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Speaker 1: about the effects of alcohol and about addiction. In no

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Speaker 1: an important topic for us to discuss because so many

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Speaker 1: of us are affected by it. Even if you're not addicted,

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Speaker 1: the chances of you knowing someone who abuses alcohol is

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Speaker 1: pretty high. According to the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse

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Speaker 1: and Alcoholism, almost thirty million Americans had an alcohol abuse

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Speaker 1: disorder in twenty twenty three. Anyway, let's bring on my guest.

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Speaker 1: His name is Joe Jurillo. He's a marriage and family

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Speaker 1: therapist and he also has over twenty years of experience

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Speaker 1: treating people with chemical use disorders. Hello, Joe, Welcome, Welcome

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Speaker 2: Hi, nice to see you, Nice to meet you.

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Speaker 1: Likewise, how are you today.

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Speaker 2: I'm great, Thanks, good, good.

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Speaker 1: I'm so happy to have you because I have been

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Speaker 1: wanting to drink less. I have been drinking less, but

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Speaker 1: I want to stop completely. And we'll get into that later.

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Speaker 1: But why don't we start off with you telling us

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Speaker 1: a little bit about yourself and your experience with helping

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Speaker 2: Sure, I'll try and make this brief, even though it's

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Speaker 2: a very long story. I grew up in a house

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Speaker 2: I grew up in a Catholic Italian family, and when

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Speaker 2: our whole family. I started falling in with friends that

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Speaker 2: about every day, drinking probably most days of my life

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Speaker 2: until the age of forty two, when I stopped. From

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Speaker 2: found out when I was about twenty five that my

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Speaker 2: grandfather had been a horrible alcoholic up until we grandchildren

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Speaker 2: Suffice to say, I got jobs in career I was

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Speaker 2: Got into therapy with MFT, who helped me tremendously to

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Speaker 1: In my household, there wasn't necessarily alcohol at the table

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Speaker 1: It's very much part of the culture, the type of

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Speaker 1: course I'm drinking. But I never liked how I felt.

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Speaker 1: Thiki Lab. But still i can see it in my

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Speaker 1: the bud. Which is why it's so perfect that you're

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Speaker 2: Been sober now for twenty two years?

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Speaker 1: And have you still had a lot of fun after

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Speaker 2: I have had so much fun. In fact, I've had

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you're familiar with sober celebrity rehab

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Speaker 2: Drew was a brilliant doctor understands addiction like nobody I've

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Speaker 2: I've seen people die detoxing at home. Okay, it's yeah,

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Speaker 2: And most people don't know this. Mostly people think it's

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And how do you know, Joe when you're addicted? Like,

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Speaker 1: what are some signs? I mean, because I have a

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Speaker 2: Really good question. There's two ways to look at this.

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Speaker 2: for weeks, months, and years that you're not going to

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Speaker 2: drink and drive, of course, because the idea of not

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Speaker 2: as long as somebody is partying and they're holding it together,

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Speaker 1: That's so true.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that kind of impact itself is a negative consequence. Now,

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Speaker 2: the other way to look at it, how do you

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Speaker 2: know what you know? What is addiction? What is alcoholism?

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Speaker 2: How do you know whether it's a problem or not?

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Speaker 2: It's a problem when it's a problem. In other words,

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Speaker 2: if you can't not drink, you're probably an alcoholic. I mean,

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Speaker 2: if you can't not drink that you are an alcoholic.

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Speaker 2: That means that you've got a condition. It's a physical condition,

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Speaker 2: and it's a mental condition, and it's even a spiritual

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Speaker 2: And it's a physical problem because your body, your brain,

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Speaker 2: without it. That's why in later stage alcoholism, you can't

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Speaker 2: The other way to look at it is what are

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for that. And as you guys know,

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Speaker 1: everyone that's listening, I'm respectful. I am the type of

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Speaker 1: an informative podcast. It's something that I'm very interested in,

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Speaker 1: something that I've been trying to do myself. I've been

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Speaker 1: just something for you to think about, to see how

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Speaker 1: and Joe, You've been great. I enjoy my conversation with you.

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Speaker 1: I enjoyed it very much. You're very you make me

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Speaker 1: feel at ease and just very calm, so I love

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Speaker 2: I am so glad to hear that you gey and

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Speaker 2: thank you for having me on the show. This is

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Speaker 2: as a private practice therapist. I have a home office

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Speaker 2: in Tahanga and this working with addiction people trying to

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Speaker 2: if you have you know, any people that you bump

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Speaker 1: And so forth. Absolutely, do you have a website where

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Speaker 2: It's it is. It is literally my name, Joe Jurillo

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Speaker 2: LMFT dot com.

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Speaker 1: Nice, okay, perfect, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: You're very welcome, and thank you for having me on

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Speaker 2: the show. It's been my pleasure and my privilege. And

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Speaker 1: Definitely, I appreciate it. I think I want to send

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