How I overcame alcoholism | Claudia Christian | TEDxLondonBusinessSchool
A hugely successful actress who saw her personal life and career tested by addiction, Claudia shares her journey of overcoming alcoholism and offers fresh perspectives on alcohol use disorder...
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Reviewer: Queenie Lee I've been in the entertainment industry for over 30 years. I was a very light drinker in my 20s. In my 30s, I was a social drinker, and somewhere in my early 40s, I developed alcohol use disorder, which is abbreviated AUD. We don't really use the term alcoholism that much anymore, because it's too narrow of a term. AUD covers everything from the occasional binge drinker to the chronic daily drinker. I started to realize that something was very wrong with me when I was always the last person standing at the bar or at dinner parties when everybody else had switched to coffee, I was still quaffing wine. Yeah. I realized then that I definitely had a problem, so I decided that I would just go cold turkey, sober, and I did...
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Reviewer: Queenie Lee I've been in the entertainment industry for over 30 years. I was a very light drinker in my 20s. In my 30s, I was a social drinker, and somewhere in my early 40s, I developed alcohol use disorder, which is abbreviated AUD. We don't really use the term alcoholism that much anymore, because it's too narrow of a term. AUD covers everything from the occasional binge drinker to the chronic daily drinker. I started to realize that something was very wrong with me when I was always the last person standing at the bar or at dinner parties when everybody else had switched to coffee, I was still quaffing wine. Yeah. I realized then that I definitely had a problem, so I decided that I would just go cold turkey, sober, and I did...
