 So like, I think there's a whole like a group of people on TikTok who make like drug videos or getting high videos just for like the cool factor, right? Like sometimes I watch videos like that one right there and I'm just like has this person even really ever gotten high or like yo dude I bet this is what it's like when you get high. What is up everybody this is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. If you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health. I also talk about addiction, addiction recovery, all that stuff. So if you're into that make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. All right so I am a TikTok newbie. Okay my beautiful girlfriend Tristan. She is all up in TikTok. She doesn't make videos but she watches a ton of TikTok. She recently got me into it and a creator that she got me into is Sarah Hawkinson. Not sure if you know about her if you want go check her out. She does some like horror movie reviews and just some commentary in general. Anyway Sarah Hawkinson recently did a video on TikTok drug culture. All right and it's a pretty good video. She talks a lot about how you know TikTok is geared towards children and there's this stuff going on and but I wanted to kind of chime in and give my perspective because Sarah Hawkinson discusses how she didn't you know try even smoking pot until she was about 25 years old and I wanted to offer a different perspective because those of you who don't know me, hi I'm Chris. I'm a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. My addiction really took off when I was a teenager. I was in my addiction for almost a decade and I've been clean since 2012. So I just wanted to chime in on this and yeah discuss it a little bit because statistically most people, most young people are going to try drugs. They're going to try alcohol. Abstinence isn't really something that we can expect. Like I have a 11 year old son right and we have open discussions and everything like that. Anyways I thought I would chime in and look at some TikToks and I was browsing through. I was looking up different hashtags and everything like that. So the first the first little TikTok niche will look into is ketamine. All right so these are these are kind of interesting to come across. Sarah Hawkinson mentioned it in her video but you look up hashtag ket and you'll either find ketamine TikToks or TikToks because ket means something in another language but anyways let's check out this first one. All right so I want to put this in a little category of its own. So like I think there's a whole like a group of people on TikTok who make like drug videos or getting high videos just for like the cool factor right. Like sometimes I watch videos like that one right there and I'm just like has this person even really ever gotten high or like you know dude I bet this is what it's like when you get high you know. But yeah that's an effect that like a bunch of people are using. But then I came across this one too. It was a little bit more interesting. So people are asking what is a k-hole? A k-hole happens when you take too much ketamine. What happens is ketamine blocks the neurotransmitter called glutamate in your brain and so you have this little neuroscience experience. Your mind and body become separate. That's why ketamine is called a dissociative drug. Some people like being a zombie while others are terrified. If you don't know what it is don't do it kids. All right so yeah let's discuss. So something that's interesting that's always fascinated me about drug use substance use is how we have these different tastes for for drugs. And by the way one of the reasons I tiptoe around these videos and it's taken me so long to make a video like this. I never want to glamorize drugs but I do want to have a conversation. But for example like he talks about how like some people like walking around and being a zombie. That wasn't my jam. Like I remember trying you know Xanax right and it was just the worst feeling ever. And then there are also people who like uppers right like coke, meth stuff like that. That's not what I wanted because I was mostly drinking and using because I was so depressed and I didn't want to I didn't want to feel anything. And I like to get high and just sleep or get blackout drunk and just sleep. Like I couldn't imagine being on an upper and being up like forever right. But anyways like I said I'm glad that you talked about neurotransmitters. Here's what's interesting. They've been using ketamine low dose low dose ketamine for depression treatment and there are some positive results but I'm kind of on the fence about it because of this. Like as you can see like people use ketamine to get high right. So there are a bunch of clinical trials like currently going on for ketamine treatment for depression. But in my opinion we need to find out if it's actually treating depression or if it's just like getting high the same way I would pop you know prescription opioids to get rid of depression. You know what I mean? Like if I'm getting high I'm not nearly as depressed. Okay so something else that's really prevalent on tiktok is psychedelics. All right like this is huge on tiktok. So I pulled a couple but there are some where like people are like teaching you how to make like DMT and things like that and I have opinions about that. But anyways here's a couple just on the topic of psychedelics. Hello did you know you can mail acid very easily. You just have to tape it into a birthday card and then send that card and no one notices. Follow up question. Does anyone want to send me a birthday card? Hey don't do that. Don't mail drugs. All right like what? What? Yeah that can get you in a lot of trouble. It is very very illegal. Let's check out this next one though. I'm gonna pause through this one a little bit longer. But yeah so I will say this like with what she's saying she's talking a lot about the propaganda and stuff around like demonizing psychedelics and everything and some of you have seen my videos I did on psychedelics. Yeah there is you know a lot of different treatments that they're starting to do for you know depression and anxiety using psychedelics like low again low dose right. But like this whole like oh yeah this is this is a myth that people think they can fly on psychedelics like not really a myth even though it's not like 100% of people who use psychedelics are going to go jump off buildings. Like what we need to understand is like even though drugs like psychedelics like you're not going to overdose and die on them like when you look up the statistics many of the substance related deaths are from accidents okay because when we are high when we are tripping balls we do very stupid things right. So yeah even though they might inflate these numbers and that's that's something that just really bothers me is you get extremes on both sides right. You get the anti-drug people who just make up lies like oh weed is gonna make you like eat your mother's face off right and it's like no it's not and then you have other people who are like pro-drugs and they're like you can never ever be hurt while doing these drugs it's like okay let's let's come to the middle let's tell the truth and explain what really can happen. So yeah like right here like she's talking about like there are studies you can go research it look it up and everything like that. So they are starting to use it but yeah like the only way you're really going to get that treatment right now to my knowledge unless they pass a law that I don't know about it is still illegal in most places but like the only way you're going to get that treatment is if you are part of some kind of clinical trial but I'm keeping an eye on it because anything that helps people helps people me personally as a recovering drug addict like that's not that's not a treatment option that I can use like it she she mentions like you know addictions and alcoholism um after working in treatment for three years I do know a lot of people who tried ayahuasca treatment or I believe the other one's called ibogaine right it's this natural kind of hallucinogen and like a bunch of those people relapse because it's this very short term solution right you open up these you know parts of your mind and you get this kind of spiritual experience but if you don't keep that momentum going with some kind of treatment like relapse is pretty likely yeah but overall like I agree with her like hopefully they're able to start using this uh psychedelics more often with like mental health treatment but in like a controlled setting in a controlled environment you know what I mean and the the dosage is monitored like you can't just like or you shouldn't rather just go to your dealer and just be like yo let me get like a bunch of mushroom caps I'm going to cure this depression right it should be like in a treatment session setting uh like what they do with ketamine like to hook you up to like an IV drip and you're like in a place that they don't just like at least to my knowledge they might do that if any of you know let me know down in the comments but from what I've seen with ketamine treatment you are in uh like a doctor's office while they give you the ketamine treatment all right so this last um genre we're gonna look at is like um kind of like drug education uh addiction recovery type stuff um so yeah let's check out this one first all right so like uh I you know I'm indifferent about this tick talk in general but I will say like hopefully like people came across this video and they're like hey what's Narcan all right listen very carefully listen follow the words coming out of my mouth okay Narcan is a life-saving drug for opioid overdoses all right many people I have known people who have died from opioid overdoses because people with them while they OD didn't call um you know 911 right in many states in many many many states because of the opioid epidemic you cannot get in trouble for calling in an overdose all right so you can have needles spoons drugs everything all around you but they will not charge you if you are calling to save somebody's life so please remember that and if you you know someone who might need that information tell them there are so many like we have tens of thousands of overdose deaths every single year and I'm regularly thinking about how many of those are because people didn't know that you can't get in trouble for calling in an overdose all right so Narcan is an opioid overdose reversal drug some states like um where the opioid epidemic is really bad you can actually buy it over the counter I think they actually just started doing that here in Las Vegas as well so if you live with somebody who's addicted to like heroin or prescription opioids it's a good idea to keep some Narcan in the house all right let's check out this next one yeah like it's crazy because uh prescription opioids were my thing and like this dude he's spot on the one I'll say is like the the eye the pinpick uh prick pupils I wouldn't notice that maybe it's just because I don't like gaze in people's eyes very often but uh yeah the mood swings um when people are coming down like dude dude when I was coming down from opioids like you did not want to be around me I was just I I I just just a little just right um and the itching the itching it's so weird I don't know why it happens maybe I'll look that up sometimes um but like this dude's pretty cool like he's clearly in recovery he makes a bunch of videos about like addiction recovery in general and uh when Tristan sent me this dude's tiktok I was like oh cool I was looking and this morning I was like going through his page he has a lot of recovery stuff and then and then I came across this one randomly his whole tiktok is like addiction recovery and then it just takes this hard right turn into white privilege and I'm like okay all right anyways uh yeah uh that's all I got for this video let me know down in the comments below what you think about tiktok drug culture and by the way follow me on instagram and twitter um I want to do some mental health uh tiktok reactions to depression anxiety I've seen some stuff about borderline personality disorder so follow me at the rewired soul send me some uh that you would like me to take a look at react to all that stuff all right but anyways that's all 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