All too Human: Niko's Struggle with Alcoholism
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Shoeless in South Dakota: In this third edition of our All Too Human interview series, Breht and Dave welcome Niko into the Shoeless Shed to have an honest conversation about his struggles with alcoholism.
With these All Too Human interviews, we aim to highlight and destigmatize the mental health and addiction struggles of regular working class people in hopes that we can provide insight into this type of human suffering, help others who struggle with similar things feel less alone, and deepen our understanding of the modern human condition.
Outro music: 'Hundreds of Ways' by Conor Oberst
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| 0:00.0 | So it all started in a galaxy far far away. I gave my sister a call after about a three-week |
| 0:09.2 | bender and we're talking 30, 35 shooters a day. |
| 0:13.4 | So a bottle and a half. |
| 0:15.3 | My whole rationality with why I went to shooters over a bottle |
| 0:18.2 | is because if I buy a bottle, that whole thing's gone in an hour. |
| 0:21.1 | My friend, that is two bottles. You're so drunk you can't do math anymore. |
| 0:25.7 | Two, well, 30 shooters is a shot each. |
| 0:28.8 | Well, when I did my drunk math, it was 23 shots per bottle but once again I might be wrong anyways copious amount of |
| 0:37.3 | alcohol yeah yeah really bad so withdrawals for anyone who's experienced them, they are, I'm experiencing everything. |
| 0:45.8 | Just have not seized at this point. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:48.8 | So conversations with people that |
| 0:55.0 | type of stuff. |
| 0:58.0 | when enough of the alcohol has left my body, that type of stuff. |
| 0:59.0 | So anyways, I gave my sister a call. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm like, hey, like I relapsed, I've been sister a call and I'm like hey like I relapsed I've been on a really long |
| 1:05.5 | vendor I need help and at this point I had a dog at the time wasn't taking the best care of him, was just giving him food and letting |
| 1:16.4 | him outside and letting him back inside. |
| 1:20.1 | Hundreds of shooters scattered across my floor. |
| 1:23.4 | And I come to find out the next day |
| 1:26.6 | when my sister comes to rescue me per se, |
| 1:29.0 | so I can go detox at home, very dangerous, I might add. She comes over there and I have two pair |
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