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- I'm Dr. Armand Dorian,
the Chief Medical Officer at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital.
I'm also an ER doctor, and unfortunately
I see a lot of people overdosing
and I know a lot about those drugs.
Today we're gonna be discussing
a few popular songs and their reference to drug use.
I'm gonna actually break down those drugs
and what they do to your body.
Let's begin.
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Now I hit that epi O with duffles in my hands ♪
♪ I did half a Xan, 13 hours 'til I land ♪
♪ Had me out like a light ♪
Okay, so what is Drake saying there?
First of all, great song,
I just don't like the message.
He says, "I did half a Xan,
13 hours 'til I land
Had me out like a light, ayy"
So, Xanax is a medication that was created
for panic attacks.
It also helps with sleep,
and it looks like in reference to that,
Drake was taking it for a flight so he could sleep.
What Xanax also does,
is it slows your heart rate down,
it slows your breathing down,
so if you take too much, you'll actually stop breathing.
You'll not be able to protect your airway,
and you can die.
This next one is by Eric Clapton, called "Cocaine".
♪ If you got bad news, ♪
♪ You want to kick them blues, ♪
♪ Cocaine ♪
Okay, Eric Clapton, "Cocaine".
He says, "If you got bad news,
You want to kick the blues,
Cocaine,
When your day is done,
and you want to ride on,
Cocaine".
It actually makes sense,
because when you feel like your day is done,
you feel like you're exhausted.
If you take cocaine and it just revs you up.
Cocaine makes you feel like you're super human,
makes you like a Superman.
We actually use cocaine in the hospital.
And ironically, we use it in the nose.
We use it for when your nose bleeds,
we put a little cocaine there to squeeze down
those blood vessels to stop the bleeding.
But we don't give you the amounts
that actually cause you to have a high.
What happens when you take cocaine?
You feel like you're Superman.
You feel like you can just run through a wall.
You feel like you can lift a car.
And the problem with that is,
It starts burning your body to the ground.
Your heart actually can't take that speed,
can't take that effect of cocaine.
And you end up having a heart attack and dying.
The next one is "Better Now" by Post Malone.
♪ And I'm rollin', rollin' rollin' rollin' ♪
♪ With my brothers like its Jonas, Jonas ♪
♪ Drinkin' Henny and I'm tryna forget ♪
- Alright, so what is Post Malone saying
to us here in "Better Now"?
He said, "And I'm rollin', rollin' rollin' rollin',
with my brothers like its Jonas, Jonas,
Drinkin' Henny and I'm tryna forget"
So drinking Henny is alcohol,
and alcohol we know is a massive problem in society.
We see people drinking all the time.
Actually, small amounts in the legal limit
is actually good for you.
There's a lot of studies that show it's okay.
But here's the problem.
When you start drinking too much alcohol,
it starts pickling your brain in alcohol.
So it starts making you be very sluggish and
unable to react to actual life's problems.
Then you add something that makes it a lot worse.
You add Molly, you add benzo's, which are Xanax.
Those drugs, its like basically like having a campfire
and dropping a grenade in it.
Boom! It's a big explosion in your body.
Your body can't react to it,
can't adapt to it, and you end up dying.
So this is not a joke,
this is not something to say or sing about,
that you're going to be better now,
you're definitely going (bell dings)
to be worse now.
Okay the next song is "Wake Up In The Sky" by
Gucci Mane, Kodak Black, and Bruno Mars.
♪ But this my life, ♪
♪ I'm on Adderall, ♪
♪ I be smellin' Hi-Tech when I piss, ♪
♪ Like it's basketball, I drop 50-pointer on my wrist ♪
- Okay, "Wake Up In The Sky",
Gucci Mane, Bruno Mars, and Kodak Black.
"I'm on Adderall,
I be smellin' Hi-Tech when I piss
Like it's basketball,
I drop 50-pointer on my wrist".
There's no question you're not going to be dropping
50-pointers if you're on Hi-Tech.
Hi-Tech is a cough syrup, so that's what we use it for.
We prescribe it for people to take when they have pain
and they have multiple persistent coughs.
Unfortunately, the medications inside
that cough syrup, Hi-Tech,
is actually very similar to heroin.
It's an opiod, which we know, or you hear on the news,
is one of the main causes of death or overdoses now.
So what it does to your body,
is it puts you in a really slow state.
Then, you add Adderall, which is meth,
which initially is supposed to shoot you up,
but then it makes you crash.
You add the crash to that low state,
your heart slows down, your breathing slows down,
and you're barely alive, kind of like a slug.
Next, we're listening to Danny Brown, "Die Like A Rockstar".
♪ Sniffin' Adderall off the counter in my kitchen ♪
♪ Trippin off that (bleep) that had Brian Wilson flippin' ♪
- So let's break down, Danny Brown, "Die Like A Rockstar".
He says "Sniffin' Adderall off the counter in my kitchen
Trippin' off the (bleep) that had Brian Wilson flippin'"
Then he says, "A shot of Hennessy,"
♪ A shot of Hennessy ♪
♪ Spike that with some molly ♪
Spike that with some molly,
tell mommy I'm sorry, God bless my soul".
So Danny Brown's mentioning sniffing Adderall,
which rockets your brain super fast, super high.
You're snorting it so it's getting
to your bloodstream immediately.
Then you're adding Hennessy which is alcohol
to kind of slow you down,
and it kind of pickles your brain in this state
where you can't make wise decision.
And then finally, you add the drug molly.
Which is basically, who knows what it's going to do.
It can do anything at any time.
Those are basically the Three Musketeers of death.
Let's listen to the next song by Peter Tosh, "Legalize It".
♪ Judges smoke it, ♪
♪ Even my lawyer do" ♪
So, Peter Tosh, "Legalize It",
"Doctors smoke it,
Nurses smoke it,
Judges smoke it,
Even the lawyer do"
Peter Tosh was ahead of his time.
We are legalizing it.
Marijuana is really not that bad
when we look at the big spectrum of drugs.
Some physicians actually do smoke it.
There are some medicinal qualities of it,
when it comes to nausea,
but too much of it can actually cause vomiting.
Nobody's really overdosed on marijuana,
but overall it slows you down too much
and you can't be an active player in society.
You're just not going to be at your 100% best.
I'm telling you, I'm not preaching to you,
drugs are not good.
Make the decision to stay away from them.
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