I just finished watching the brand-new Netflix documentary called take your
pills which is about out of all use in the United States so in this video I'm
gonna review this documentary and make sure that you stay tuned and right at
the moment the opiate doctor prescribed opiate abuse epidemic is taking center
stage but I'm telling you adderall is right below the threshold of the opiates
everybody it's Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but
focus on the solution was coming out so I stayed up late watching it made some
coffee and let's do this thing so some of you might have saw my trailer
reaction to this documentary and now here is the full review and man like I
can honestly say I can also say this like after watching this documentary
like I am severely bummed out I'm very bummed out for those of you who are new
here like first off make sure you subscribe to my channel I make videos
about mental health addiction and all sorts of stuff so those of you who
haven't met me yet I'm a recovering drug addict and alcoholic and my primary drug
of choice was prescription pain medications so when it comes to
medications especially narcotic medications once they become can become
addictive like this is something that I have to talk about a lot and because
there's just so much stuff going on in the country you know that comes to this
thing and this documentary really shed a light on what's really going on so by
the way like there's gonna be some spoilers in here but it's not like some
you know it's not regular like movie where there's like plot twists and
things like that so like if you want to watch it you know go watch it come back
or whatever but if you just want like kind of a brief recap stick around let's
talk about this thing so anyways the documentary it follows quite a few
different people there's like maybe I don't know half a dozen to a dozen
people some of them are people on out of all summer people who have gotten off
adderall some of them are doctors neuroscientists psychologists and all
sorts of people in here okay so one of the first things that starts talking
about is like the use of adderall on college campuses and it talks about like
this hyper-competitive environment right and one of the first things that kind of
blew my mind is that like all these college campuses they're like selling
training adderall like left and like they're showing like these Facebook
groups where people are just like yo is anybody got any I'll get some like
they're just doing this so nonchalantly and something that one of the young
women who's in college talks about like it doesn't really connect for them like
this is a drug right like she makes a analogy like this isn't heroin you know
what I mean but like think about it different types of prescribed opiates
those are prescription heroin you know what I mean adderall is prescription
methamphetamine there's only one component that's different and it's a
very slight difference based on the chemistry of it so like they're doing it
and they're seeing this as like this competitive advantage and it's helping
them study it's helping them do these things right they don't see it as this
drug even though it is an addictive substance it does trigger the dopamine
systems and that's what creates an addiction because that's our pleasure
system that's the system in our brain that says I want more of this thing but
young people are not associating with this and you know it goes on and they
they talk about you know there's this is a financial analyst for Wall Street and
you know he was taking out of all you know as part of this career so he can
work longer hours he was doing like 16-hour days and a guy who was working
on a project with like how that seizure and things like that but towards the end
of this documentary they talked to one of the young women who is you know so
focused on her grades that she's got to get these good grades and like and it
really saddened me because she was like you know like after college is over I
think my relationship with out of all is just gonna be done and I'm sitting there
putting together this guy who's you know in his career still taking out a role
he's in his 20s and this young woman who thinks that all of a sudden now that
she's out of college she's not gonna have to take it anymore but the reality
is it's like that competition that drive that need to be the best still continues
after that in the workplace especially with jobs and careers demanding more and
more and more and more and more so anyways there's some great authors who
are also in this documentary and like it was interesting
the history of it so we'll brief history of this like they started giving it to
soldiers in World War two they sort of seen that it helped them focus better it
helped them be the best soldiers that they can be right but then they started
seeing the addictive qualities especially when it started hitting the
mainstream back in the United States so it was crazy to me it was nuts I never
even knew this was a thing so these amphetamines they were giving
in like this nasal spray right and they were just being marketed like we're
talking like the 1950s in the 1960s like housewives and musicians and artists and
like in songs back in the 1950s that were singing about it but back then it
was called I believe it was called my Benzedrine and then they even talked
about the Beatles and they had this song called doctors something and it's about
this doctor who would prescribe this enemy to like celebrities and rock stars
and things like that and what they ended up seeing was like you know this thing
is highly addictive they were giving it to employees and stuff to make him work
and work and work this is actually like one of the first drug laws that came out
and they had to change this to a legal substance without a prescription and he
needed to meet all these criteria just to get it that happened in around 1970
or so so we went from prescribing eight billion adderall per year or Benzedrine
by 1972 had dropped down to four hundred million so what ended up happened it was
this I believe he was Swiss or Swedish the scientist he was trying to create
something to help his wife out make her better at tennis make her lose some
weight make her a little bit more peppy write her name her her name was Rita
right so we decided to call it Rita lean right but then when the
pharmaceutical company picked it up they took off the II called it Ritalin
all right well anyways the United States right around this time I believe it was
in the 80s or so they decided that they wanted to do some tests on this so they
ordered like the barrels like by the barrels they ordered all this stuff and
they want to see what happened and they have one of the scientists who actually
first worked on it his name was Keith Connors so Keith College was scientists
that was like pretty much these studies right so this lead
scientist Keith cars he would just basically go to a school and they back
then you could just walk up to the principal basically say yo we got this
new drug we think it might help kids you know calm down focus more in school and
like the principal be like yeah it's like anything you could do to make these
kids chill so like they were just doing these massive tests just giving these
pills to kids right and they were seeing like these immediate results like the
dr. Keith Conners he actually talks about how like you know there was this
immediate results where like parents were saying like the very next day like
wow my kids a completely different person completely different person right
and then that's when they started massively prescribing this medication
and I mentioned it in my first reaction video about the trailer like the United
States and New Zealand are the only two countries the only two countries where
they can directly market these type of drugs to consumers these addictive
medications so there was this huge push all of these ads everywhere that's just
like oh a student you know what I mean so it's being marketed to these parents
and they're just supplying it to these kids like in in insane ways so we saw
this massive drop in the prescribing of these medications and then just
skyrockets again now it's at a level where it's mmm it's more than it ever
was and as you saw from that intro clip like the issue is is that the opioid
epidemic is it's the main focus right now but right behind it is out of all
like but I what I really want people to understand is that the opioid epidemic
started from Purdue Pharma who has been sued for millions upon millions upon
millions of dollars for the way that they marketed these drugs now one of the
reasons that the opioid epidemic is getting a lot more spotlight than the
adderall problem is because opioids are killing people left and right now when
it comes to a de Waal we're having these health issues but people are kind of
brushing it to the side okay and a lot of it's because they're looking at is
these like performance enhancers right but something that they discuss in this
documentary is like where do you kind of draw that line one of the guys one of
the offers he brought up this interesting subject and actually made me
like think for a second like he talked about like you know say you have you
have two students right one family can afford an SAT tutor the other one can't
so is the SAT tutor is that a performance enhancer like what if the
other kids only option is to take something like out of all it's like man
like I get it I get it in that such but again like a lot of it is this false
idea that you know you know these careers and these other things are
they're gonna make us happy right and like I'll do a whole nother video about
college and college students I get a lot of college students who ask me to make
videos and I really need to something that they bring up in this documentary
is something called human capital value okay
like they talk about how light from the second that your your even conceived and
you're in your mommy's belly right your parents and others are already thinking
about your human capital value like what is the maximum amount of value that we
can get from this person right so parents are like always already thinking
like what are they gonna be when they grow up are they gonna be successful at
you do this how much money they're gonna make all these things and like you see
it - like preschool applications right like getting kids into these private
risky schools all these things to push them towards this quote-unquote
successful future you know what I'm saying like we're constantly like
looking at these kids and saying like what is their maximum value going to be
and that's one of the reasons why I mentioned in my last video about Jordan
Peterson like I feel that people like Jordan Peterson and Gary Vaynerchuk are
on the rise because I so many parents have these really poor value systems of
what a successful child is like as a parent myself like a successful child to
me is if my son's doing what he loves to do you know what I mean
like too many parents project their views of success on their
children and that's one of the many reasons one of the many many many
reasons we have so many depressed and anxious young people these days one
person that they follow in this is an NFL player former NFL player his name is
even and he played for I believe the Philadelphia Eagles and he disc and
somebody's like hey I got some adderall you want to take it and because of you
know drug testing and stuff like that like you need this exemption so he went
and got diagnosed with ADHD and like even his wife was like oh I guess this
is cool like you're doing the dishes now and you're doing this and he was
performing better he was uh he was talking about how he he could like
almost see the plays before they happened he was just hyper focused and
what happened to him was one day he ran out of his adderall prescription and he
ended up taking ritalin which resulted in him failing a drug test getting a
suspension and things like that but he acknowledges like how it became a
problem like he became dependent on this thing he was taking like a seventy
milligram time-release he was supplementing it with 20 milligram pills
throughout the day and then he had to take other things to go to sleep at
night and it was this constant cycle and he was talking about like the crashes
and the depression and all these other things and he ended up becoming an
author but part of this segment was talking about how like we had an
Olympian just the other year who popped dirty for outer wall on her test and
like more and more athletes are starting to do this when I was in the
professional eSports scene like a lot of you know the gamers were starting to do
this as well and I'm not too in touch with that anymore but I wouldn't be
surprised if that's still a thing now one of the things that made me really
happy well my man is former NFL player like
he's talking about how now he meditates you know what I mean and like this is a
thing that I can't stress enough like as I'm watching this and I'm seeing these
people justify their out of all use and you know parents
justifying it all these things I'm sitting there I'm like every result
you're looking for has been proven to happen via meditation like there's
there's so much science behind it you know but we're just throwing these pills
that you're just throwing them at kids the last thing I want to talk about is
recent study they did not too long ago was they took two different groups of
students right and they told him like we're giving you performance-enhancing
drugs okay to some of the students to one group of students that were giving
him a hat all to the other ones they gave a placebo and over this course of
time to see how much they were learning how much they were improving they were
identical they were the exact same so what they're finding is like these pills
don't actually make you smarter or anything like that but the idea that
confidence behind them like don't get me wrong these medications do like
intensify your focus but when it comes to success like a lot of it just has to
do with this confidence I'm believing in yourself and what you could do like
that's what's so interesting about these placebo studies but anyway it's like the
the ending of this documentary and bummed me out the more than the rest it
was just kind of talking about like the state of our society the how hyper
competitive we are and you know one of the last people to talk in this
documentary was basically just like you know when we're doing this like we're
losing like this this human component you know what I mean it takes away from
creativity and like emotions and things like that and you know along with like
the joy and love that we feel for each other
you know unfortunately like there comes grief and loss and pain and all those
other things but that's part of the human experience and you know with these
with these performance-enhancing drugs like we're trying to turn ourselves into
these things that we weren't meant to be you know what I mean like I don't know
if any of you have seen a movie equilibrium back in the day old-school
Christian Bale but like they lived in this society and there's other like
dystopian you know novels and movies that do this we're like everybody's
medicated to turn them into these like perfect human beings and like I don't
know it kind of scares me where we're headed in the future when it comes to
medications like I just you know I just don't see why we're trying to run away
from this this human experience but I'm gonna do some more videos just about my
college and success like I will link up in the info cards and other videos I've
done on happiness for success and things like
that and I hope you watch I'm like all right a lot of this comes down to our
value systems I don't mean to offend anybody with this right here but a lot
of it comes down to lazy lazy parenting you know what I mean like I don't want
to spend time with my kid I don't want to you know sit down and work with my
kid and and learn how to properly navigate through their emotions with
them I don't want to do any of that I just want to throw a pill at them and
have them be the kid that I imagine like that's what worries me the most
that worries me so so so much I was just talking to my friend about that I'm like
you know I'm watching this and I'm so worried that you know this kid we know
is going to get prescribed this medication because he has a neglectful
parents you know what I mean like that's that's what really worries me and the
way that we justify the use of these medications like I don't know but
anyways take your pills it is out on Netflix right now if you want to check
it I would love to know your thoughts down in the comments below whether you
check it out or not I really really really hope that you share this video
like let's put some awareness about what's going on with these medications
because you know in in this perfect world the opioid crisis is going to be
taken care of but right on it's hills heels is this amphetamine crisis you
know what I mean so please share this video let's get somewhere in the top
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