sometimes people roll up in my comments section asking me about my
qualifications well here's one of them I've done a lot of drugs what is up
everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but
focus on the solution and if you new to my channel my channel is all about
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this is my next review of the you Netflix series season one just found out
they're doing season two really cool anyways follow me on Instagram follow me
on Twitter after we wired so the only reason I even knew to check this show
out was because of all of you beautiful people who tweeted at me and DM me and
left comments and told me to check this shell out so make sure that you follow
me over there so yeah anyways in this video what I like to do is I like to see
how shows are depicting mental illness or how shows or are depicting like drug
use or recovery and see if it's realistic you know because I think it's
a point that we look at it and you know this way if you can relate or you know
somebody who is using or maybe if you're somebody who's using and you need help
you know we need to see what's real and what's not real
alright so in this video specifically we're gonna be breaking down a few
characters and their drug use and that's Benji peach and Claudia alright so if
you haven't watched the show yet just so you know there's gonna be some spoilers
some minor spoilers alright but anyways if you haven't watch the show and you
want to watch it turn this video off come back later but if you don't really
care you're just here to have a good time and learn about drugs alright so
first let's talk about Benji so Benji is the jerk that Beck was dating in the
beginning right and he's super rich guy and whatever and we knew that he used
drugs so yeah whatever I don't mind sterile
stereotyping drug use typically a rich dude like Benji I would assume I would
assume that a guy like that was doing cocaine alright but later on we find out
that he was actually using heroin so when he was locked in the box by Joe he
was going through withdrawal alright and one thing that I think is
really important that a lot of people need to understand is that you know
Benji snorted it okay that's one of the reasons I thought it was cocaine but
he's snorted heroin okay it's important that people realize this because
sometimes you know people asked like what are the signs of like drug use or
opioid use or whatever and you guys like snorting is an option for heroin I'm not
telling you to go snort heroin please don't but like say say it's a parent or
whatever see a lot of people get the misconception that heroin is only used
by injecting it right but that's not true it can be injected snorted or
smoked okay so some of the signs that you're
looking for might not be track marks on a person's arms and even track marks are
hard a hard sign to look for sometimes because people who are hiding their drug
use they inject in other places besides their arms some people do it you know in
their neck between their toes or whatever I knew a guy who injected meth
in his eye thing right there and it's tearduct alright so yeah usually people
doing drugs don't want to get caught doing drugs so it's important to know
that this can be snorted as well if you're looking for signs of addiction
there's other things to look forward like you know sniffing residue around
the nose sometimes red bloody noses things like that for example my
substance of choice was prescription opioids and I snorted them alright so
like I wasn't just taking them I would typically crush them up store them so
this was one of the reasons that maybe some people didn't know but yeah that's
what I was doing so in the scene where Joe gave Benji some drugs to get
information about back I think it's important to realize this so since Benji
was going through withdrawal and finding really really bad Beck knew that he can
get information from Benji and Benji was more than happy to do it so what I want
you to take from that scene right there is if you have a low
one who needs help this is the time to do it okay because that is very
realistic when someone is coming down and withdrawing from drugs that is the
perfect time to get them into treatment they are desperate they will do just
about anything for example that's when I got help okay I was out of drugs my mom
found my drugs threw them away and I was willing to do whatever it took because
you know the withdrawal especially from opioids is extremely painful I talk
about some more symptoms of withdrawal soon but opioids in particular have both
physical as well as psychological withdrawal symptoms so with someone's
coming down even if it's like alcohol all right like one tip that I'll give
you is don't try to get somebody help while they're high or while drunk 99% of
the time it's not gonna be good okay best time to do it is when they are
coming down when they are withdrawing that's when you say hey let's go to
treatment all right and something that I think's important to realize is that
medical detox is always the safest best option worst case scenario you'd go to
an emergency room if you don't have insurance and can't get into a detox
facility or if like detox facilities have too long of a wait so next let's
talk about our girl peach all right so peach she um you know I made a video
about peach yesterday peach you know she she faked that she
was attempting suicide and she didn't really take anything too deadly so
anyways in that scene when they go over their back tells Jo to go downstairs in
the bathroom clock in the bathroom or whatever and fund in naloxone okay and
what naloxone is this is something used for people who are overdosing on opioids
all right so one of the reasons that people overdose on opioids is because
the opioids go in and they occupy the opioid receptors in the brain so if this
is a receptor this is the opioid right so when you snort the nasal spray but
they also have like injecting and all that stuff what it does is it knocks the
opioid out of the receptor and it revives people all right now depending
on what the person used or how much they use sometimes it takes a few doses okay
so I've heard of people having to be revived from an opiate overdose with
like three five squirts of naloxone okay but I
think this is something really good that people need to understand you really
really really if you're in the United States I don't know how it is in other
countries you really need to look what what's going on in your state when it
comes to naloxone it's also called narcan and see if you could buy it over
the counter if there's somebody in your life who is using and they're not
getting help it is always always always good to have some naloxone on hand okay
because you never know when this is gonna happen and it can really save
somebody's lives because what happens when somebody goes through an opioid
overdose is that they they can't breathe they might choke on their own vomit you
know all that kind of stuff so naloxone might save their life because you don't
know how long it's gonna take for paramedics to get there but for example
here in Las Vegas a few things they legalized selling the locks owed over
the counter so you can actually buy it over the counter but the other thing is
too that there are different organizations like for example we have
organizations here in Las Vegas that do free narcan training that's a good thing
by the way and typically those organizations they might give you free
naloxone so there are some places here in Las Vegas where like I actually have
some naloxone just in case cuz I work in the the field of addiction treatment and
all that but it's not the nasal spray because that's more expensive it's
actually a syringe and it's like inject all right so look in your area ask
people ask your pharmacist if you have to like ask your local pharmacist do you
have locks on is it over-the-counter or you can just google it and see if it's
if it's able to be bought over the counter in your area especially if
you're in an area where opioid addiction is a really really big problem so lastly
let's talk about Claudia all right so Claudia is Paco's mom we know that she
has a drug problem and all of that and here's where I think it's important to
understand what is being shown in shows and see what we can learn from it and
see if it's realistic or not realistic so they never really say what substance
that Claudia was using but based on the scene where Claudia came over when Joe
Karen epochal were eating dinner it seemed like Claudia was on an upper like
cocaine on okay what you came in there so when
Claudia's going through withdrawal and they bring her down to the little cage
doodad thingy alright one thing that Joe brings up is like naloxone okay so this
is the thing it's important to understand what naloxone is and how it
can help naloxone is specifically for opioids okay it's not for cocaine it's
not for meth alright so it's important to understand
that because we don't want especially because in the locks of is expensive
like you don't want to run around spraying people with naloxone who are
like addicted to meth or cocaine and that's not how it rolls alright
but anyways something I always say like is detoxing on your own is extremely
unsafe so that's one of the things like I think I mentioned in my last video
about peach like trying to detox her downstairs not good but what I will say
is under the assumption under the assumption I don't know if they say
exactly what drug it is in the book under the assumption that claudia was
using uppers like a cocaine or meth or whatever adderall is also an upper or
any of those feta main medications the symptoms of withdrawal that she was
going through aren't too dangerous so I get a lot of pushback when I say how
dangerous withdrawal is and you can die from it well like yeah you can die from
withdrawal from cocaine or meth but it's not because of
the drug okay long-term cocaine or meth use what it does is it puts your heart
under a lot of stress okay anytime you are going through withdrawal your heart
is under even more stress and elevates your blood pressure and your heart rate
so yes you can have cardiac failure no matter what you're withdrawing from
that's why it's important to go see a medical professional alright but anyways
doing the scene where she's withdrawing she was like throwing up and all of that
kind of stuff if it was a substance like cocaine or meth that wouldn't happen
alright um typically or might happen but very rarely typically symptoms of
withdrawal from uppers like cocaine and meth they're going to be primarily
psychological there aren't too many physical symptoms of withdrawal okay so
typically somebody who is abusing meth or cocaine or whatever they're going to
have restlessness irritability and the depression anxiety a lot of
psychological things but looking at a drug like heroin or prescription opiates
or whatever you're gonna have a lot of physical symptoms so I personally went
through opioid withdrawal I did a cold turkey withdrawal not by choice already
but I had both physical as well as psychological symptoms but if you are
somebody or know somebody who is struggling with opioid use just know by
going to a qualified detox facility there are medications that can help with
withdrawal I don't typically recommend methadone unless it's a very quick taper
but even still I don't like it it can be more addictive and you become more
dependent than with opioids typically what I always recommend is a short-term
suboxone taper all right so suboxone is it's a partial very
partial opioid but what it what it does is it helps trick the brain by you know
those receptors I was talking about it occupies those opioid receptors so a
tricks your brain into thinking that you are still using the drug alright so that
way it decreases your symptoms of withdrawal and then when you're under
you know the care of medical professionals some people do outpatient
detox you get tapered down so it helps a little it helps a lot with the
withdrawal because people who try to withdraw cold turkey they have a higher
chance of relapse because it sucks alright but anyways I always recommend
like maybe 1 to 2 weeks max for suboxone taper because if you do a suboxone taper
or just a suboxone detox and you do a long-term months I've seen people being
on it for years you will go through withdrawal all over again because
suboxone is a partial opioid so that's why usually one to two weeks is your
best option alright anyways anyways like I said um I
was joking earlier like aside from my qualification of doing a lot of drugs
back at Mount Bay I also worked in addiction treatment
alright so the addiction treatment facility I was recently working at for
over three years you know we had an inpatient facility with detox and all of
that as well as nursing and doctors and everything and we also had outpatient so
if you have any questions about drugs detox anything like that let me
know down in the comments below alright but again like I said there will be many
more videos coming up about the show you breaking things down because I know a
lot of you loved it and if you have any recommendations on things that you would
like me to talk about from the show let me do it out in the comments alright
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