lil xan was recently on the no jumper podcast and adam22 asked him a few
questions about lil sands like sobriety his addiction going to rehab and
everything like that and Lowe's and made some excuses about why he relapses and
that's something that we definitely need to talk about
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started full disclaimer I don't know lil xan I know I know it's a shocker
but I do not know those in but I am a recovering drug addict an alcoholic in
recovery I worked at an addiction treatment center for a little over three
years and although I'm not a licensed therapist or psychologist I have a lot
of experience with addiction because of my almost ten-year addiction and my
almost seven years of sobriety all right so my hope is that anybody watching this
if you know somebody who is an active addiction or in early recovery or if
you're somebody an active addiction or in early recovery I really hope that
looking at this situation with Lois an can help you out now some of you might
be wondering Chris why are you watching an interview with Adam22 and lil xan
funny stories I was watching some h3 podcast cliffs and one of them was like
lil xan has a little IQ and it was something about like the boyfriend tag
with his like girlfriend or ex-girlfriend I don't know who it is and
h3 was even was I poking fun at little saying I almost like dude this guy is
like messed up I think even even mentioned that a few times but I
remember like I don't listen little dance music and I really hope if anybody
watching this is not a fan of Lohan's music like try to like separate the
person from the the art you know the artist from the art like little sin is
somebody who struggles with a drug addiction and I hope there's some
empathy in this when I say empathy I have empathy I'll I just also have some
tough love anyways after watching that h3 clip YouTube recommended the no
jumper podcast because a little sand was just on it and I saw on the title that
they talked about his sobriety and yeah basically in the interview lil zan lie
he skirts around the question a few times which I'll touch on in a second
but then he says like it's the industry right the industry is what does this and
little Sam was high during it like you just like smoke to blunt like at the
very beginning of that but so but he referenced little peep and X right and
lo Peep died of an overdose X got murdered so I'm not sure why he like
kind of like intertwine those two because they're two very different
circumstances like maybe like little peep and Mac Miller or something like
that but anyways yeah let's talk about this so the first thing is like little
Sam like skirted around the question all right and this is something that a lot
of drug addicts who relapse do right like we don't want to talk about it like
and and here's the thing I definitely do have empathy I am somebody who relapsed
many times before getting sober this last time almost seven years ago like we
skirt around this stuff and the reason is is because of the guilt and shame
that comes along with it like especially somebody like little sand who made a
very public that he had a drug problem and he was going to rehab and everything
like me I'm not even on that level and almost geez this was probably nine years
ago when I went into a detox center just to you know like get medically stable
for a few days like I posted on like Facebook just
letting everybody know hey I have a drug problem
I'm getting help and then when I relapsed a few months later I felt so
guilty and ashamed about it I let myself down I let my son down I let my you know
son's mother down I let my friends down I let my family down and I felt awful
about that so that might be one of the reasons why screwing around or maybe why
somebody in your life is skirting around it and another reason I wanted to make
this video is because again I'm not like a little Zen fan but I remember when
little peep assed away like I was doing research for a video I made about little
peep when he passed away and I saw a little Xan talking about how like drugs
are like killing so many people like at such a young age and he was gonna get
his act together and I didn't really follow up on that story but here we are
today and little San obviously his name comes from xanax you know what I'm
saying and that is a very dangerous drug not only can you die from it when you
mix it with others like just something as simple as alcohol
like if you're drinking and taking xanax you can die from it but tons of people
in the United States are dying like little peep did because xanax is now
getting pressed or like fake xanax is getting pressed with fentanyl which is
more potent than heroin okay so anyways get him back to a life listen when asked
about his sobriety he talks about how the industry and the work that goes into
it this is what's creating addicts and like here's the thing like cut that crap
out like cut it out like these are excuses like you guys like I said like I
love everybody but I'm gonna give tough love especially when it comes to
addiction like when I was working in the treatment center I cannot tell you the
amount of dumb excuses I heard for people relapsing everything from my mom
or my wife or my husband like you know got into an argument with me to somebody
saying well they offer me drugs what was I gonna do yes say no in my seven years
being sober I've been offered drugs and alcohol so many times I can't even count
I've been offered my drug of choice which was prescription opioids by
doctors and I still turned it down I used to tell my clients all the time I
was like you are never going to find a valid excuse with me about why you
relapse so when I see little Xan saying it's the industry it's the career that
he's in and how much work they do that is leading to an addiction that is such
BS all right because here's the thing let's look at
people like Eminem right who just celebrated I'm like over a decade sober
I can't remember I think it was like 11 years sober let's look at McLemore
although McLemore had a relapse you know a couple years ago he is again in
sobriety you know there are many many other artists in the mainstream who are
sober so like when when I hear those and say that like if I knew little Sam
I'd be like nah man that's not an excuse because something that all of us have to
learn in sobriety is if that person can do it I can do it too you know what I
mean like I remember I got sober I heard about people having their children die
I met a guy who had a terminal terminal cancer and he only had months to live
and he stayed sober through it so when I hear somebody like little sans say I'll
go to work a lot like that is not a valid excuse what what we have to do is
we have to find people who are doing what we want to achieve and this for
everybody drug addicts non drug addicts whoever it is like we need to find
mentors we we have to find people who are in a place that we want to achieve
and learn how to model their footsteps what is they doing right like for
example Eminem when he celebrated his birthday a week or two ago he showed his
12-step coin right so I would imagine and this is it's it's totally possible
at Eminem just goes to a meeting once a year and gets his coin I've seen some
people do that but it's also possible that he goes to 12-step meetings
regularly and that's how he's staying sober mclemore the other rapper that I
gave an example of he has many songs about 12-step programs all right like
when I believe it's a song other side and then also his song starting over
that song - it's about a relapse and then going back into 12-step rooms so to
see somebody like littles and say like oh the industry this is why I'm a drug
addict that is just an excuse like he's the other thing and the last thing I'm
gonna touch on is the fact that like any like so many people who get sober they
think they can still smoke weed right now let me make it very clear I am NOT
anti weed I'm not anti alcohol I happen to have an addiction problem right so
when I have smoked weed in the past it always led me back to my drugs drug
of choice I am somebody who cannot smoke weed safely without going back to my
drug of choice and I've seen this take so many recovering addicts out so many
addicts out so many people who get sober from like heroin opioids meth cocaine
all these things they they get rid of the hard drug like okay I can still
smoke some pot and much like myself leads them right back to that drug like
again I'm Pro weed I I'm very you know knowledgeable about like the medical
benefits I know it helps with anxiety and depression and everything like that
I actually voted to help the law get passed to get a legalized here in the
state of Nevada right so I'm not anti we so get that right the hell out of your
ad but the reality is is when you see somebody like little Zinn who's talking
about relapse is he's still smoking pot you see what I mean and I would be
curious if he's ever tried to stop smoking pot and see if that helps with
his sobriety and that's somebody out there if that's you if you keep finding
yourself relapsing and you keep smoking pot maybe try getting rid of the pot for
a while because for me I always had a foot in the door I always
had a foot and left in the door that left me wide open to relapse my last
relapse that happened seven years ago was because I kept smoking pot and then
when prescription opioids were offered to me I was like might as well and then
it took me out a year and a half long relapse that almost killed me because
the thing is that we have to understand about addiction whether it's alcohol
addiction drug addiction food addiction sex addiction shopping addiction
gambling addiction whatever it is we are doing it for one of three reasons to get
a feeling to get rid of a feeling or to have an escape all right the root cause
of addiction at its core is that we are trying to alter our state of mind
because we can't handle living in the reality that we're currently living in
we're trying to get rid of something we're trying to avoid something we're
trying to suppress something and shove it down so when we're actively doing
something like continuing to smoke pot we're just finding a different unhealthy
coping skill you see what I mean and this is why rehab is so important
therapy is so important 12-step meetings are so important so you can get down to
those root causes and figure out what's really going on so I do hope for the
best for little Sam but again I don't think little sands gonna see this video
I hope this video helped you or somebody you know please share it with somebody
you know if you see that they're in the same kind of cycle as Lowe's an alright
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