like most people out there I was extremely saddened by the death of
Carrie Fisher but most of all when it comes to honoring her death I'm
extremely pissed off because it's about the stigma of addiction and we need to
talk about it right now so stay tuned what's up everybody this
is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the
solution I have personally been a Star Wars fan since I was a kid I was not
born yet for the original trilogy but my grandmother introduced me to Star Wars
when they rerelease the original trilogy in theaters and I've been a fan ever
since last year Carrie Fisher died and with the release of the last Jedi
everybody was wondering like you know how are they going to and Princess Leia
in this movie and I won't spoil it for any of you guys who haven't seen it yet
but anyways with the release of the last Jedi there have just been so many
articles so many stories from her co-stars and other people who have known
her throughout her life and one of the issues I hate when somebody dies from
drug addiction is that nobody talks about it like this is probably the worst
way to honor their death that's why I put air quotes in the intro to this
video because nobody is truly honoring their death by not talking about what
happened now I want to make it very clear before you all like with me to
shreds in the comments I want to make it very clear Carrie Fisher was an amazing
woman she battled with drug addiction you know as many people in Hollywood do
she sobered up and so her official cause of death they said it had some some
things to do with sleep apnea as well as heart issues but there was also a
cocktail of drugs that they found in her system and I will link to an article in
the description from the LA Times it says Carrie Fisher's autopsy reveals
cocktail of drugs including cocaine opiates and ecstasy alright so a couple
things here one of them is there's a couple varying reports now when we're
talking about sleep apnea and heart is I am a drug addict in recovery and one
of the reasons I had to get sober was because at 26 years old I had congestive
heart failure drugs alcohol had destroyed my body to a
point where I was about to die my heart was the size of my lung and it is still
in the process of healing it's a lot better now since I've been sober five
and a half years now other autopsy reports show a cocktail
dress which signifies a relapse Carrie Fisher was an amazing woman because not
only was she outwardly spoken about her battles with drug addiction but she was
a huge huge huge advocate for mental illness and anybody out there talking
about mental illness openly like my hat is off to them that is one of the
reasons why I respect Carrie Fisher so much but it breaks my heart that
everybody's sharing all these great stories about Carrie Fisher which I
understand and and I think that we need to you know talk about the good times
but when it comes to the fact that tens of thousands of people each year in the
United States alone or dying from addiction and we're not constantly
reminding people that this woman died before her time because of a drug
addiction we are doing her memory a disservice like so many people like
Carrie Fisher is an icon right Princess Leia
right and we're not teaching the new generation that the reason why Carrie
Fisher died was because of drug addiction how are we doing any service
to the next generation by deterring them from potentially becoming addicted to
drugs now I know scare tactics don't work but it helps put something in their
mind like wow this took out somebody who was rich and famous and an icon she had
the love and support of her friends her family her fans right I will link to
another video I did called rock bottom where I talked about Carrie Fisher as
well as a bunch of other famous people who have died from addiction but this
really bothers me because in the last two-and-a-half years for any of you
wondering what drug addiction is really like like sometimes sometimes I get
comments um in some of my other videos like one of my first videos where I talk
about how addiction is disease I get comments what people are
like I lost my brother to addiction so don't talk to me about how addiction is
a disease it's a choice when you lose somebody you tell me so I want to make
it very clear in the last two-and-a-half years I have had 60 people die
60 that is 6-0 in two and a half years so yes I am on the frontlines of this
thing and I know how many people that kills and something that I do whenever
somebody I know dies from addiction I look at the obituary I go check the
obituary I'm like did the family mention that this was from an overdose or
alcohol or other drug related causes 99.9 percent of the time they don't okay
like they don't mention in the obituary and I get it the obituaries mento
remember they're good memories and and the family they left behind and stuff
but we need to talk about how drugs are what killed this person we need to stop
making this such a taboo subject we need to start telling people this is why they
died this is why your mom died this is why your dad died is why your your pop
icon's are dying this is why your teacher died this is why that guy who
used to work at the grocery store died we need to talk about this because the
more we keep this under wraps and we don't talk about it the worse this thing
gets imagine if every time somebody died from addiction we actually talked about
it imagine imagine this was part of normal conversation and yeah I'm pretty
heated because one of the reasons I made this channel is to get that dialogue
going this is something that we can't just sweep under the rug people are
dying every single day in droves from addiction like I remember Carrie Fisher
and all the amazing things she did and her role and Star Wars as well as other
films and her mental health advocacy work but I also remember that she died
from drug addiction I'm letting you all know right now anybody who watches this
video let me let me put this out there into the world okay if I relapse and I
die for from a drug addiction I want all of you watching this to let the world
know that it was because drugs killed me I want you to say that I
had some Clinton I relapsed and I died from drug addiction mom dad my little
boy Dylan if you're watching this if I die from a drug addiction I want it to
be in my obituary okay that is what I want alright so you better honor my
memory by letting the world know that drugs took me out if I relapse alright
so that's the end of this video hopefully you don't hate me hopefully I
got through to you and I hope you understand what I'm talking about when
it comes to this stigma of addiction alright bye anyways if you liked this
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