Q&A with Smart Recovery, Ted Perkins

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JULY 8, 2022 – Ted Perkins has worked in various professional capacities in the motion picture industry and in senior executive posts at two major studios, including Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures. He has also held positions as a senior film marketing and distribution executive at Senator (now Lionsgate International) and Vision International, and is an expert in international film financing and distribution, pre-sales, TV sales and syndication, business planning, and SVOD/AVOD programming.

Q. If you are in recovery, what was your drug of choice? When did you stop using?
A. I loved alcohol until I didn’t love me back. I don’t count the days since I’ve quit, but it’s been enough time for me to realize how lucky I was to catch it in time.

Q. If you are in recovery, are you back to going to in person meetings or sticking with zoom?
A. I host a weekly SMART Recovery online meeting via Zoom every Wednesday night at 7pm and find it works nicely. Eventually I’ll go back to F2F. Please feel free to pop by: Zoom ID: 182 684 973

Q. Do you think addiction is an illness, disease, a choice, or a wicked twist of fate?
A. The words “disease” and “illness” and “choice” and “fate” are value laden and prone to misuse and misapplication. Addiction is a positive feedback loop that has become auto perpetuating and harmful. That feedback loop happens in the brain. The feedback loop is more common and intense in people who have experienced trauma, feel anxiety, suffer from depression, have a certain gene sequence which predisposes them to like certain reward systems more than others. Some people are addicted for no reason at all other than they just really like using.