Substance Awareness, Spiking & Crew Safety With Stacey Miller | Superyacht Laundry
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What does substance awareness really look like when alcohol, drugs, nightlife, crew culture, safety, and personal responsibility all collide?
In this episode of Superyacht Laundry, host Cherise Reedman is joined by Stacey Miller for a raw, honest, and practical conversation about alcohol, drugs, harm reduction, drink spiking, crew safety, and why awareness matters in an industry built around travel, pressure, nightlife, and intense work.
Stacey brings both professional expertise and lived experience to the conversation. Her background in drug and alcohol awareness, prevention, education, recovery support, and safeguarding gives her a clear understanding of why fear-based messaging rarely works, and why better information can help people make safer decisions before things reach crisis point.
The conversation explores teenage drinking culture, hangovers, functioning drinking, substance use, drug testing, THC vapes, cocaine, ketamine, GHB, synthetic opioids, and the reality that many crew are navigating these risks while working in holiday destinations, nightlife hubs, crew houses, and high-pressure onboard environments.
Cherise and Stacey also discuss drink spiking, sexual assault risk, green crew vulnerability, power imbalance, active bystander culture, social media stalking, reporting challenges, and why yacht crew safety cannot be reduced to telling women to “be careful.”
This is not a lecture. It is a conversation about awareness, practical tools, crew responsibility, harm reduction, and a more honest approach to what actually happens around alcohol and drugs.
In This Conversation:
- Alcohol, drugs, and changing social norms
- Functioning drinking versus problem drinking
- Why recovery is difficult once substance use becomes a lifestyle
- Different drugs and different risks
- Drug testing and yacht crew reality
- How Stacey entered the yachting world
- Antibes nightlife and crew vulnerability
- Harm reduction for crew on leave
- Why yachting can become the perfect storm
- Drink spiking in marina and nightlife environments
- What perpetrators may look for
- Green crew, power imbalance, and risk
- Active bystander culture
- Social media, stalking, and personal safety
- Spiking drugs and alcohol risks
- Reporting challenges and proof
- Yachting safety priorities
Collective responsibility
Guest:
Stacey Miller
Host:
Cherise Reedman
Superyacht Laundry
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Important Note:
This conversation is for awareness, education, and general discussion only. It is not medical, psychological, legal, or addiction treatment advice. Anyone concerned about alcohol, drug use, drink spiking, assault, mental health, or personal safety should seek support from qualified professionals or appropriate local services.
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