and this orange is the new black season 6 review we're gonna be talking about
daya's drug addiction I am a recovering drug addict so I have a little bit of a
reaction to how they portrayed it so make sure you stay tuned what is
everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but
focus on the solution and welcome back to another video where I'm talking about
orange is the new black season 6 it's a great show I love this show and if
you're new to my channel I am a mental health Channel and I also talk about
addiction things like that I've been clean from drugs and alcohol for six
years now and what I try to do with these videos is I try to make it so when
we're watching this different type of content you know whether it's YouTube or
Netflix or movies or TV shows whatever it is like what lessons can we learn
from it so as a drug addict in recovery something I'm always doing whenever a
show depicts drug addiction I always want to see like are they doing it well
are they perpetuating a stigma are they perpetuating any kind of misconceptions
about drug addiction the things like that so I want to talk about what
happened in season six of YTN beep alright so there will be some spoilers
not like major spoilers but whatever go watch the show come back whatever you
got to do anyways so died in season six she is dealing with the wreckage of her
past like this is something that all the characters are dealing with I'll link up
in the info card the last video I did like one of the overarching likes themes
of this season is like dealing with stuff like these bad decisions that you
made and dealing with the consequences and stuff like that
so anyways so dire she ends up getting charged with a bunch more stuff which
pretty much extends her her sentence for indefinitely right and this is a result
of the prison riot and things like that she's actually the one who held the gun
in the first place they kind of kicked this thing off after poussey died but
anyways so in this season you know there's different blocks and things like
that and that's not too much of this video but
gets introduced to a new character referred to as daddy and she used to be
like a pimp for like a better word on the outside but now on the inside she
works right underneath barb who pretty much runs that block and she peddles
drugs specifically prescription opioids I believe like the primary drug is
oxycontin alright so anyways like one of the things that's messed up in this
season is like now that there am at like a lot of these women are getting beaten
by the CEOs and stuff like that so daya has been getting beaten and daddy comes
up to her and she's like yo I got some pills for you and and she's just playing
nice with daya like and in prison well you gotta kind of be wondering like what
are you trying to give me like what do you want in return and things like that
pretty much was just you know multiple times then finally Dyer takes the oxy
and this kind of sets off a series of events so dye develops an addiction so
we'll talk about that in a second the first thing that I want to talk about
like how they depicted it and this isn't the show's bad like the show didn't do
anything wrong but when I was watching this my girlfriend I just told her like
I find it really interesting like you see it coming from a mile away like as
somebody who is in recovery and as somebody who watches like different
shows and movies and things like that like once this character gets introduced
to drugs you know that they're gonna become addicted and what I was telling
that girlfriend it's interesting like not everybody develops an addiction like
so many people out there like if you go to some of my other videos like a lot of
the negative comments like think that I'm like saying that oh if you touch
this drug you're gonna become a drug addict and like that's not the case
that's not the case at all like 1 out of every 12 people develops a drug or
alcohol addiction like it's not the case at all but I find
it interesting that shows make it seem sometimes like okay you tried this drug
now you're hooked and that's kind of what happened with diet I'm like it'd be
kind of interesting if diet took these medications to deal with the pain after
getting the snot beat out of her by the COS and then she stopped using up all
right that would be interesting you know what I mean
that's just like me being nitpicky stuff like you just you know it's coming
and in a sense that kind of does perpetuate this stigma and I think it
might be why so many people push back on this whole I don't give opiates or
opioids to anybody especially who are in chronic pain because there's kind of
this idea that anybody who tries them will become addicted that's not always
the case let's talk about dyers addiction so as a recovering drug addict
like so much of it like it was real like they did a great job showing it and
here's why for those of you who aren't educated about addiction and you're not
an addict in recovery or anything like that I hopefully share this video
because they showed what can happen like this isn't just like making a bad choice
so if you get into the mind of the character of diet light things have been
going bad for her for a long time so she is the child of you know a mother who
you know always was dating drug dealers and things like that so like from a
young age dai has already been around it and one of the leading risk factors for
developing an addiction is being around that stuff costly when you're out of
young age that's one thing that she had going for the next one is her baby so
not only did she get him pregnant by a co but this dude just straight up and
left okay so that's another thing right next she had to give her baby up for
adoption okay next after that I guess an
additional sentence added on to her original sentence and there's much more
that I can't even remember right now but these things start stacking up so in
prison especially in this character situation I could see how hope is lost
right when you're feeling hopeless and the three weeks is people use drugs or
drink alcohol is to get a feeling to get rid of a feeling or to have an escape
and I can see daya having all three of those if not just to get rid of a
feeling and to have an escape right like you're stuck in prison you're gonna be
there forever so I can see diet just saying screw this like I'm just gonna
used well it's like well I've avoided it I have a Mike drugs and things like that
but whatever I'm gonna start using and abusing these drugs like the only thing
I'll say that the show could have done a little bit better is if they show it how
this thinking like sneak up on you but what dies it was a really really fast
progression okay and one thing okay so I guess there is one thing I don't think
that they did very well dier was like physically dependent on
these drugs after a very short period of time that doesn't really happen you got
to be abusing drugs like an excess for a while like even if you're getting a
standard dose it's gonna take a while to become physically dependent your body
has to change its internal chemistry to think that it needs this substance in
order to feel well and for daya like her full-blown dependency happened like in a
matter of days maybe maybe weeks but she was dependent very very quick
so anyways play ends up happening is the supplier ends up not being there anymore
right well he's still there but he can't
supply drugs anymore for whatever reasons there was this little rat
infestation joke that they played and that's not the point anyways so they
can't really get these drugs anymore so anyways daddy intz up showing daya
the secret stash of barb so barb for those of you don't know she's like the
head gal in charge Riley she calls out here it's like she's like the ringleader
she is the head boss okay so daddy ends up giving daya some of the secret stash
from this little cleaning closet okay so daddy is faced with this dilemma
because so many people are feeding and I'm gonna talk touch on that in a second
so many people are Femi and she ends up giving a diet a little bit of barb stuff
but when daya wants more and daddys not getting more daya ends up making the
insane decision to go in there and steal from barb okay
and like this is very real like this is real like when you become addicted to a
substance you put yourself in danger right you put yourself in danger in ways
that you would have never done before because you need it so bad so dial was
literally literally putting her life at risk to go steal drugs not only that but
she was putting daddy's life at risk by going to steal these drugs from barb
like barb could have put a hit out on them
like that okay so that is very realistic like I don't think people understand
like people like oh do since just a choice like we do so many things that we
know is wrong that we know is dangerous but we do it because we don't know what
else to do okay so they portrayed that really well like she went to
lazy lanes but anyways I think the other thing that they did really well was
showing all of the other inmates who are struggling with withdrawal and how they
were costly nagging daddy for drugs when are you getting them when are you
getting them what's going on and you could see them getting more restless and
they're getting more irritable and you know they're getting very angry and
things like that yeah that's some real stuff like I went to a detox center and
like it's like that you know like costly people were at the nurse's station like
trying to figure out ways to manipulate and get different drugs and things like
that oh I need this you don't understand they get very angry and agitated you
might have already seen this like maybe a pharmacy counter like if somebody's
prescription didn't go through they get really agitated so I think orange is the
new black did a good job with that overall I think they did you know maybe
yeah maybe we'll give it a 7 they did a 7 out of 10 on depicting addiction and
things like that I just had a few little crimes many ways I hope you like this
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