the midterm elections are right around the corner so let's talk about ending
this very silly war on drugs
this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but
focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel my channel is all about
mental health as well as addiction recovery and the stigma and all of that
so for any of that make sure you subscribe and win that notification bell
but yes November 6 is the midterm elections and part of my channel is you
know mental health awareness and advocacy and before you go out and vote
and let that tell you who to vote for or how to vote but you know chances are if
you're watching this video you care a little bit about mental health and
although people think that addiction is not the same as mental illness it very
much is and you'll see why throughout this video but we need to look at the
policies that certain politicians back because some of them are not helping
people who are struggling with mental illnesses like addiction so this war on
drugs like let's talk about this because there are different politicians who are
for it some are against it so let's just talk about this so did you know did you
know that the war on drugs and the war on cancer actually started the same year
now think about that real quick both of these wars on this this illness
right but think about the direction the war on cancer went okay there's a bunch
of funding you know a bunch of charities we got you know bucks where we wear a
certain color and that's awesome that's great
let's think about the war on drugs we started locking people up we start
tossing them in prison is this illness where people do very bad things like
people who have cancer don't necessarily like robbed their parents jewelry or you
know steal things are doing like violent offenses right so that's one of the
reasons why people with addictions are looked at in a different way but here's
the thing we cannot deny scientific evidence okay so over the years
many many many neurological studies to show that the brain of an addict is
different than the average but brain ok what are the primary differences is that
somebody who has the disease of addiction their brain gets an excess
flood of dopamine all right so that is why they become hot on these drugs or
hooked on alcohol but it can also happen anything else second kind of release
dopamine right but there are neurological studies putting up this
picture on the screen all right there's one normal brain then there's another
brain that is getting flooded with dopamine so we have scientific evidence
addiction is a disease but we're still locking people up here's something else
to take into consideration did you know that the leading cause of addiction as
well as relapse is mental illness that's right most people who develop an
addiction and what we call co-occurring disorders so they have an addiction as
well as a mental illness so many people like part of my experience when I became
addicted I was self-medicating my depression and anxiety all right I
didn't know what was happening to me it was scary it was confusing why doesn't
my brain work like other people's the only thing I knew was that drugs and
alcohol help calm my brain down so due to that self-medicating and rewiring the
way my pleasure circuits work in my brain but every time I would be anxious
my brain says oh the solution this substance is right then what happens to
most people is that that solution then becomes a primary source of the problem
so we are punishing and locking up a lot of mentally ill people rather than
treating them now let's talk about the prison cycle okay I just want you to
imagine envision this story okay so think about it someone who is having
their luck right maybe I grew up in poverty maybe they maybe they're
struggling with PTSD like so many of our veterans are as well as many people who
have traumatic childhoods right and they just want to quiet the noise they want
to quiet this thing or maybe they live you know just in poverty a terrible
neighborhood they just want to escape so they start using substances alright then
arrested for a nonviolent substance offense they get put into the prison
system now they get out and they have a felony okay so they started
self-medicating because maybe their depression or their anxiety now they get
out of prison and now they can't find a job because of this thing that's on
their record right what do you think that leads to more depression more
anxiety so what is going to stop them from turning back to those substances
and going right back in the prison system are you starting to follow me
here all right so when we're locking people up for these nonviolent substance
offenses they are more likely to start abusing substances again because as most
of us know the prison system isn't exactly set up to rehabilitate now there
is a saving grace there is a saving grace
there are many cities as most states that have drug courts so but if you're
not familiar with drug courts what this is is they give people the option you
can either do jail time or you can go to a treatment program all right I'm very
fortunate I never you know got into legal trouble because of my addiction
but I know many people many people who took the option of drug court and now
there's still claim to this day two of my very best friends to this day or six
years sober because of drug courts on average on average 50% 50% of the people
who go through a drug court are sober a year later and if you're able to stay
sober for a year your chances of staying sober in the next five years
or even higher you can stay sober for five years your chances of never
relapsing again are pretty much like less than 15% that you'll relapse all
right so think about that now one of the issues is is that drug courts are not a
federal thing okay a lot of it is state by state
sometimes even county by county all right so what that means is maybe like
here in Southern Nevada we might have drug courts and then in Northern Nevada
we don't right so these are things that I want you to think about when it comes
to legislature sure should we give people the option to get treatment to
get help okay especially with a success when you just when you hear 50 percent
it doesn't seem that great but I'm letting you know right now there's a lot
of treatment centers that don't even have a 50% success rate all right is
much lower than that so when people are threatened with you know jail time or
this record or whatever it is they're more likely to stay on the straight and
narrow because it's like forced accountability and I can do a whole
nother video about how some people think that it's like you know it's it's
unconstitutional to you know make people like go to 12-step meetings or do a
treatment program and stuff like that's a bunch of ridiculousness okay anyway
there's a great TED talk by the author Johann Hari I'll actually link it down
in the description below but he talks about addiction in connection with
American country it is but basically they got rid of all legal issues when it
comes to substance use right and what they did was they started giving these
people jobs and they saw their addiction rates just plummet okay now one of the
other issues that I won't dive too far into is that we have a privatized prison
system where people are in there basically working for slave labor all
right like you haven't I don't know if you've seen but there are people like in
prisoners going on strike because of what's happening in our prison systems
so we start to kind of think about how we're punishing the mentally ill the
people who have a sickness that people have a disease the people who aren't
giving getting a proper chance to recover they were putting them in a
system so are you people comparing all of them like it's kind of messed up in
my opinion so for the last half of this video let's talk let's get real real
quick okay so some of you who don't know me how much you know about me I am a
recovering drug addict an alcoholic I have not had one narcotic substance in
over six years I had a single beer no liquor
I haven't even smoked weed okay that's what I am but I'm here to tell you
legalize weed all right it's legalized weed so going back to the whole war on
drugs you know many people are in prison because of a weed offense right and it's
absolutely crazy it's crazy I can't remember I think I might have been
Washington but they've done whatever like they're getting rid of all that
stuff and letting them out if it was a nonviolent drug offense I had
marijuana's way so here in Nevada a couple years ago I voted to legalize
weed I don't smoke it but I know that it's not nearly as dangerous as some of
the other stuff people are getting like pharmaceuticals okay so like legalizing
weed will be a great benefit so here in Nevada like we've made insane amounts of
money that go back into our economy here you've seen places like Colorado do it
all right you see in other places like I think California or Washington they're
doing it it's going back into the economy right that locking people up for
some weed it's even crazier it's even crazier when
you think about Big Pharma in the United States all right it's crazy to think I
did a video a long time ago that I will link up in the info card called the
truth about the opioid epidemic all right
there are so many politicians that are paid by big pharma so why do you think
why do you think I don't want to get all crazy right now but why do you think
they turn a blind eye to big pharma but they're trying to crackdown on marijuana
right some of these politicians are getting hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of dollars from Big Pharma all right but here's the thing did you know
did you know that over 80% of heroin addicts started out with prescription
painkillers alright so they want us to think that all these other countries are
the problem for bringing in their heroin but it's the pharmaceutical industry and
us over prescribing medications that's given people the gateway into heroin
next did you know that each year in the United States every single year in the
United States more people die from prescription drug overdoses than heroin
and cocaine combined that's right so we're talking about prescription opioids
prescription opiates we're talking about benzodiazepines okay all of these
medications that doctors can just make it rain all willy-nilly more people are
dying from those than heroin and cocaine combined but we still have a federal
government that won't legalize weed how many documented overdoses do we have
from weed now don't get me wrong we can't become addictive I've made videos
on this people can get high and you that can be fatal all right when we look
at what's happening in our country and the way pills are getting thrown around
all over the place the last thing the last thing we should be worried about is
marijuana marijuana is actually less dangerous than alcohol you know like so
many health myths associated with it it's crazy now I'm not telling anybody
watching this like go out and smoke some weed it's crazy to think that this
should still be illegal and half people go to prison over this stuff so anyways
again again like go out and vote like I always say like you have no right to
complain unless you're willing to go do something about it like just go vote if
you think everything I said in this video was BS I don't care don't vote if
this might have like switched something with you you're like oh maybe I'll
actually look into these politicians and see you if they're four against the drug
war like go vote for somebody who's against it like whatever it is but go
out there and put in some effort so we can make a difference together anyways
anyways I want to have a conversation down below let me know what you think
about the drug war or the prison system or let me know what your thoughts are
about legalizing marijuana and pharmaceuticals and all that let's have
a conversation down below but be nice be nice to one another let's have calm
educated adult like conversations alright but anyway that's all I got for
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I'll see you next time
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