 In this Orange is the New Black Season 6 review, we're going to be talking about DIA's drug addiction. I am a recovering drug addict, so I have a little bit of a reaction to how they portrayed it, so make sure that you stay tuned. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And welcome back to another video where I'm talking about Orange is the New Black Season 6. It's a great show. I love this show. And if you're new to my channel, I am a mental health channel. And I also talk about addiction, things like that. I've been clean from drugs and alcohol for six years now. And what I try to do with these videos is I try to make it so when we're watching this different type of content, you know, whether it's YouTube or Netflix or movies or TV shows, whatever it is, like what lessons can we learn from it? So as a drug addict and recovery, something I'm always doing, whenever a show depicts drug addiction, I always want to see like, are they doing it well? Are they perpetuating a stigma? Are they perpetuating any kind of misconceptions about drug addiction and things like that? So I want to talk about what happened in Season 6 of OITNB. All right, so there will be some spoilers, not like major spoilers, but whatever, go watch the show, come back, whatever you got to do. But anyways, so Daya in Season 6, she is dealing with the wreckage of her past, like this is something that all the characters are dealing with. I will link up in the info card the last video I did. Like one of the overarching like themes of this season is like dealing with stuff like these bad decisions that you made and dealing with the consequences and stuff like that. So anyways, so Daya, she ends up getting charged with a bunch more stuff which pretty much extends her her sentence for indefinitely, right? And this is a result of the prison riot and things like that. She's actually the one who held the gun in the first place that kind of kicked this thing off after Pousset died. But anyways, so in this season, you know, there's different blocks and things like that. And that's not too much of this video. But Daya gets introduced to a new character referred to as Daddy. And she used to be like a pimp for lack of better words on the outside. But now on the inside she works right underneath Barb who pretty much runs that block and she pedals drugs, specifically prescription opioids. I believe like the primary drug is Oxycontin, all right? So anyways, like one of the things that's messed up in this season is like now that they're in max, like a lot of these women are getting beaten by the CEOs and stuff like that. So Daya has been getting beaten. And Daddy comes up to her and she's like, yo, I got some pills for you. And she's just playing nice with Daya. Like, and in prison, like you got to kind of be wondering like, what are you trying to give me? Like, what do you want in return and things like that? Daya pretty much was just, you know, daddy's little plaything like, you know, she found her attractive and things like that. So Daya turns it down multiple times and then finally, Daya takes the oxy. And this kind of sets off a series of events. So Daya develops an addiction. So we'll talk about that in a second. The first thing that I want to talk about, like how they depicted it. And this isn't the show's bad, like the show didn't do anything wrong. But when I was watching this, my girlfriend, I just told her like, I find it really interesting, like you see it coming from a mile away, like as somebody who is in recovery and as somebody who watches like, different shows and movies and things like that. Like, once this character gets introduced to drugs, you know that they're going to become addicted. And what I was telling my girlfriend is interesting, like, not everybody develops an addiction. Like so many people out there, like if you go to some of my other videos, like a lot of the negative comments, like think that I'm like saying that, oh, if you touch this drug, you're going to become a drug addict. And like, that's not the case. That's not the case at all. Like one out of every 12 people develops a drug or alcohol addiction. Like it's not the case at all. But I find it interesting that shows make it seem sometimes like, okay, you tried this drug, now you're hooked. And that's kind of what happened with DIA. I'm like, it'd be kind of interesting if DIA took these medications to deal with the pain after getting the snot beat out of her by the COs. And then she stopped using them. Like that would be interesting, you know what I mean? And by like, that's just like me being nitpicky and stuff. Like you just, you know, it's coming. And in a sense, that kind of does perpetuate this stigma. And I think it might be why so many people push back on this whole like, don't give opiates or opioids to anybody, especially who are in chronic pain, because there's kind of this idea that anybody who tries them will become addicted. That's not always the case. Let's talk about DIA's addiction. So as, as a recovering drug addict, like so much of it, like it was real, like they did a great job showing it. And here's why for those of you who aren't educated about addiction, or you're not an addict in recovery or anything like that, like hopefully you share this video because they showed what can happen. Like this isn't just like making a bad choice. So if you get into the mind of the character of DIA, like things have been going bad for her for a long time. So she is the child of, you know, a mother who, you know, always was dating drug dealers and things like that. So like from a young age, DIA has already been around it. And one of the leading risk factors for developing an addiction is being around that stuff constantly when you're at a young age. So that's one thing that she had going for her. The next one is her baby. So not only did she get impregnated by a CEO, but this dude just straight up and left. Okay. So that's another thing, right? Next, she had to give her baby up for adoption. Okay. Next, after that, DIA gets an additional sentence added on to her original sentence. And there's much more that I can't even remember right now, but these things start stacking up. So in prison, especially in this character situation, I could see how hope is lost, right? When you're feeling hopeless. And the three reasons people use drugs or drink alcohol is to get a feeling, to get rid of a feeling or to have an escape. And I can see DIA having all three of those, if not just to get rid of a feeling and to have an escape, right? Like you're stuck in prison, you're going to be there forever. So I can see DIA just saying, screw this, like, I'm just going to use drugs, like I've avoided it. I haven't liked drugs and things like that. But whatever, I'm going to start using and abusing these drugs. Like the only thing I'll say that the show could have done a little bit better is if they showed how this thing can like sneak up on you. But with DIAs, it was a really, really fast progression. Okay. And one thing, okay. So I guess there is one thing I don't think that they did very well. DIA was like physically dependent on these drugs after a very short period of time. That doesn't really happen. You got to be abusing drugs like in excess for a while. Like even if you're getting a standard dose, it's going to take a while to become physically dependent. Your body has to change its internal chemistry to think that it needs this substance in order to feel well. And for DIA, like her full blown dependency happened like in a matter of days, maybe, maybe weeks, but she was dependent very, very quick. So anyways, what ends up happening is the supplier ends up not being there anymore, right? Well, he's still there, but he can't supply drugs anymore for whatever reasons. There was this little rat infestation joke that they played and all this other stuff. That's not the point. But anyways, so they can't really get these drugs anymore. So anyways, daddy ends up showing DIA the secret stash of Barb. So Barb, for those of you who don't know, she's like the head gal in charge, right? Like she calls out hits. Like she's like the ringleader. She is the head boss. Okay. So daddy ends up giving DIA some of the secret stash from this little cleaning closet. Okay. So daddy is faced with this dilemma because so many people are fiending. And I'm going to talk, touch on that in a second. So many people are fiending. And she ends up giving DIA a little bit of Barb stash. But when DIA wants more and daddy's not getting more, DIA ends up making the insane decision to go in there and steal from Barb. Okay. And like this is very real. Like this is real. Like when you become addicted to a substance, you put yourself in danger, right? You put yourself in danger in ways that you would have never done before because you need it so bad. So DIA was literally, literally putting her life at risk to go steal drugs. Not only that, but she was putting daddy's life at risk by going to steal these drugs from Barb. Like Barb could have put a hit out on them like that. Okay. So that is very realistic. Like I don't think people understand. Like when people are like, oh, addiction is just a choice. Like we do so many things that we know is wrong, that we know is dangerous, but we do it because we don't know what else to do. Okay. So they portrayed that really well. Like she went to crazy lengths. But anyways, I think the other thing that they did really well was showing all of the other inmates who are struggling with withdrawal and how they were constantly nagging daddy for drugs. Like when are you getting them? When are you getting them? What's going on? And you can see them getting more restless and they're getting more irritable. And you know, they're getting very angry and things like that. Like, yeah, that's some real stuff. Like I went to a detox center and like it's like that, you know, like constantly people were at the nurses station, like trying to figure out ways to manipulate and get different drugs and things like that. Oh, I need this. You don't understand. They get very angry and agitated. You might have already seen this like at maybe a pharmacy counter. Like if somebody's prescription didn't go through, they get really agitated. So I think Orange is the New Black did a good job with that. But anyways, overall, on a scale of 10, I think they did, you know, maybe a, maybe a seven. We'll give it a seven. They did a seven out of 10 on depicting addiction and things like that. I just had a few little gripes. Anyways, I hope you liked this analysis. If you did, like, please give it a thumbs up. Let me know if there's any other characters or storylines that you want me to break down. I got a couple other ones that I'm doing this week, but I would love to hear from you. But I would also like to hear from you if you think they did a good job showing addiction on here. All right. Again, if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. And if you are new here, I'm always making videos to help you out with your mental and emotional wellbeing. Go ahead and click that little round subscribe button and a huge, huge, huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. 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