Drug Addiction: Matthew Perry vs Peter Hitchens - BBC NEWS

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US actor Matthew Perry to journalist Peter Hitchens 'We're supposed to be grown men here and you're making faces'. The pair were involved in a fiery debate about the best way to deal with the consequences of drug addiction and break the cycle of offending. They were joined by Baroness Meacher, who chairs the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Policy Reform.

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Peter Hitchens is a lesson to all of us to listen to whats being said and not how people carry themselves.

This conversation is of Matthew Perry point blank expressing his self awareness of what addiction does to him and Hitchens who is ignorantly in his own bubble cant even be spoon fed a mind set that is not his own.

BoundaryBreak
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its annoying when someone's intellect gets to their ego. You can see it straight away by the way they behave. A lack of humility is not intelligent. 

dp
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Hitchens: You have a choice
Perry: I have control over the first drink. After that the addiction takes over!
Hitchens: Yes - you have a choice!

markalexwhite
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why was this interview ended so early? It was just starting to get interesting.

hanseich
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It is so easy for a person that has never suffered from any kind of addiction (be it to drugs, alcohol, self harm, gambling, or an eating disorder) to say that the concept simply does not exist. But being told that by someone who is merely an observer of the whole thing feels like slap in the face by a bystander. If I could choose not to want to starve myself I would. But frankly thats not how an eating disorder (or any other addiction for that matter) works.

Polkadots
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I've never done drugs aside from the casual smoking of marijuana in my teens, however the thought of criminalizing drug addiction and incarcerating addicts, is just insane to me. Those who abuse drugs have a myriad of serious underlying issues. No healthy person in their right frame mind would volunteer to abuse drugs.

JasonGafar
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he said “can i speak” and then cuts matthew off the entire time...

LolLol-pjbg
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People don’t understand that it gets to a point where you’re like “I don’t even like this feeling anymore” but you CANT stop because your brain chemistry is very much wired to seek out that drug. This guy does not understand that an addict’s brain is quite literally wired differently than a non-addict, and can’t possibly fathom not being able to control yourself around drugs.

FREEBRISK
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i'm somewhat flabbergasted by how or why peter hitchens feels that he's an authority on this subject. he has no medical training, no training in psychiatry, and no specialised training in addiction. so why is he trying to lecture everyone else on addiction?

LB
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Anyone else here now having read Matthew’s autobiography?

lukepfoster
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i‘ve watched the whole discussion on a different channel. it wasnt possible to comment there, so i will state my thoughts here.
i feel deeply for mr. perry, being an addict myself. i think i understand what he is trying to say. the thing is that he is coming from a very personal and emotional place where he can hardly bring his point across.
yes, getting off a drug is a decision that you have to make for yourself. it doesnt end there though. you have to tell yourself a thousand of times each day „i dont want to do it“, „i will get through this“, „i want to have a life without this“ etc.... the mindf*ck is very real. not only physically but mentally. it is not ONE decision. you have to make the same decision over and over again. also... addiction can be anything. from what we classify as „drugs“ and other drugs we call „medicine“, alcohol, sports, food, sex, selfharm (it all is...) and so on. when one addiction ends another can take over.
it takes an ignorant person to claim he understands when he hasnt been through it.

behabtwa
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Gotta love people with no experience or education in either psychology or science just say "well all the experts are wrong".

itsjustayoutubenamegiveitarest
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Well, Matthew became addicted to prescription drugs at one point. I think he's speaking from an addicts POV, so his perspective is valuable too. I wouldn't necessarily say that he's wrong - what he's saying may be truth for a lot of people.

fuseileter
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Peter Hitchens is one of those people that would stand on board the titanic telling people that were imaging the ship sinking

pablobrad
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For non-British people, Peter Hitchens is the lesser brother in the Hitchens family. His brother Christopher was an intellectual elite. Peter is not. Peter never came to terms with that and has tried to attack his superior sibling his entire life. Christopher was an alcoholic so this is something Peter goes in hard on. Peter is essentially talking to Christopher here during this interview, not Matthew Perry. That might explain the callousness he displays.

kane
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I absolutely disagree with Hitchens, but Perry said nothing of substance here to refute or even challenge Hitchens ideas.  Simply because he's famous and an addict doesn't qualify him to appear in a debate show.  FAIL.

tcorourke
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Wow, commentators are pretty harsh on Perry here.  I don't think people realize how delusional it is to believe Peter Hitchens argument just because an actor such as Matthew Perry doesn't have the knowledge of neuroscience to come up with direct evidence of it.  You might as well ask a gay person, "give me empirical evidence that you are gay?" He responds "well, I sleep with men." Peter says "That's not empirical proof that you have the attraction."  There is an objectivity in subjective experience that is the foundation of medicine.  Otherwise we wouldn't make any progress.   

doedicurus
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Since Matthew is someone who has gone through it so I believe that he has every right to defend himself

armypunkgirl
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It is not without irony that our dear Matthew passed on Peter’s birthday. Maybe an opportunity for annual reflections.

RIP MP, thank you for the humour and insight you put out into the world 🙏

ellep
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“My life is the objective evidence…” no Matt that would be subjective

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