 So I just got done watching episode 2 of euphoria starring Zendaya and there is a lot to unpack from this episode. What is up everybody 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 what I like to do is take different topics from the youtube community or movies or tv shows try to see what lessons we can pull from them to improve our own mental and emotional well being. And if you're on social media so am I so follow me baby at the rewired soul on instagram and twitter I love engaging with all of you I give away free books and all sorts of cool stuff so follow me over on social media. So yeah in this video I'm going to focus around Zendaya's character Rue in episode 2. I mentioned this in my last video that I do enjoy doing character breakdowns of shows like this because each one kinda has their own thing. So if you can relate to a specific character in this show and would like me to do more character breakdowns of any specific episodes like let me know down in the comments below like for example um the uh what's her name Cassie like she has a very interesting storyline that I think some people might be able to relate to um and there's some other things going on so anyways just let me know down in the comments below I'm here to service you baby. Alright anyways so yeah let's talk I want to go over a few things um those of you don't know me um I'm a recovering drug addict and alcoholic that's one of the reasons why you know it's awesome to make character breakdowns of Rue in this show um I just celebrated seven years of sobriety yesterday and much like Rue my addiction was primarily with prescription opioids alright. So anyways the first thing that I don't think a lot of people understand about addiction but they did a really good job depicting it in the scene where they were asking the students like what'd you do on your summer vacation and you know they went to Rue and one of the things is that obviously everybody knows right like Rue when she comes back to school she's nervous and knows everybody knows that she overdosed right but anyways she starts to feel this sense of panic now think about it like this is the insanity that we can get into when we're addicted to drugs so the stress the source of her stress was the fact that she used drugs right and now everybody knows that she used drugs to the point where it almost killed her and she overdosed so when that stress came back what was her solution to go use the drugs like isn't that crazy right like this is something that I can relate to if you're somebody in recovery from addiction you might be able to relate to it as well it's insane how our brain turns to that for the solution even though it's the problem like when people would call me out on my drinking or my drug use I would get angry at them or upset or embarrassed of what they found out about me and then my solution was to go find and use some drugs or have a drink like what so a few things from the scene where she's at the 12-step meeting just a couple things I might do a whole video my beautiful girlfriend Tristan like she always hears me ranting about it she's like you need to get like a montage together anyways whatever they show a 12-step meeting like it's always one person in the front talking to an audience and it is so rare that that's actually what a 12-step meeting looks like in most meetings like that's not what it is and the reason why it bugs me is because if people are looking at that like I had a ton of social anxiety and if I thought the 12-step meetings were all about like you stand in front and just speak in front of everybody like I'd be scared to go there like most meetings like probably 95 to 99% of meetings unless you are the speaker at a meeting you are not going to stand up in front of everybody else most of time you don't even have to share if you don't want to but anyways she hasn't been going to meetings and she had to get a meeting slip signed and it was very common so for a few reasons some people are court ordered to go to 12-step programs so they have to have them signed as proof to the judge for me personally I was in a sober living house and we were required to go to five meetings a week so we had to get the same thing signed and one thing that was crazy was I thought I was better than the other people who are court ordered because I was there just in a sober living house who need to get the slip sign but anyways I'm no better than anybody I know less than it's just something that I had to learn in my recovery and if you're in recovery just understand that you're no better than anybody who's in there through a drug court program but it's it's common for people to not go a lot of people like Ru in this scenario she doesn't want to get sober she doesn't want to do these things so she went up to the guy and she was like yo can you just fill these out for me so here's the thing here's what was unrealistic about this and don't get any ideas if you're in the same situation as her like in most cases you wouldn't go to the person running the meeting and ask them to fill out a bunch of like signatures like think about it like think like it surprises me too because the writer and director of the show like a lot of this is pulled from his own experience as like from his addiction like in most cases you would just have somebody forge the signatures for you like I used to forge my own signatures but Ru had her friend who gave her the clean urine why would she just have her friend sign it as well it's not like whoever she turns that into knows what these signatures look like because there's different people who signs a slip at every single meeting but by the way like I said don't get any ideas go to your gang meeting so this scene right here like it was kind of interesting because in episode one you know they talked about how Ru started you know taking her her medications to calm down her anxiety and that's when she started to self-medicate with drugs but then it shows her her scene with her dad and her dad who is you know dying of cancer he's on a lot of medications like she would get high next to him so I'm wondering which one was the exact source was itself medicating or did she just start stealing her dad's meds or was it a combination of both but you guys this is actually very very very common for drug addicts they will steal medications from a loved one who is sick right and a lot of people feel really guilty about this like I worked in an addiction treatment center for three years and I hear this story a lot like they had a loved one who was dying and they were stealing their medications to get high and it's awful like because you feel guilty about it but that guilt makes you want to self-medicate even more with the substances right like in my act of addiction I didn't have anybody who was passing away but here's the thing like I was such a fiend for prescription drugs like whenever I went to anybody's house whether it was my grandma's house or like a friend's house hell I even went through like my roommates medicine cabinet like I was looking for something that I could use to get high like so if you have any drug addicts in your life like lock yo medications up okay because we will look and we will go find them anywhere and by the way why I'm on this while I'm on the subject about people taking medications from people who are being prescribed from them like I know a lot of people have issues who are being prescribed medications for chronic pain like some some states require it or some doctors require it to drug test the person who is getting prescribed the medications and the reason this is is to make sure that they're actually taking the medications and why is that because there are people like me or like Rue where we steal the medications or a lot of people who are being prescribed these medications don't even take them they just sell them instead so this right here like if you're not an addict to like if you've never had an addition it probably doesn't make any sense probably doesn't make any sense why Rue wanted to be there you know when she came over looking for drugs and her buddy like he was like yo these guys are coming over you need to get out right now so I know I'm just gonna sit here I need the drugs right like this like this was so relatable like when we are craving when we need drugs like we will do just about anything I would I would wait for hours for a drug dealer I would be in the most dangerous situations waiting for a drug dealer right but I'll say this like I'm so my girlfriend that her drug dealer in the show kind of reminds me of one of the dealers I had but going back to the last point I made about how people who are being prescribed these medications for like chronic pain will sell them like this seem right here and by the way again don't get any ideas but most of my drug dealers were old women so 99% of the time I didn't have to deal with what Rue was dealing with in that situation with some like big gangster dude like that's it with like most of my drug dealers were like old women getting way too many medications and they were just selling to me all right so the last thing is is the drug dealer has her tri fentanyl if you guys don't know what fentanyl is like hopefully you do because there's a massive epidemic right now fentanyl is being mixed with all sorts of drugs cocaine Xanax other prescription opioids heroin and it's one of the main causes of overdose fentanyl is like God I can't remember the exact number it's either 50 or 100 times more potent than heroin but that's why he like the dealer only needed to get a little bit on his knife for her to take it right and she's scared and there was a few things running through my mind as I was watching it like the first one was is like I hope I hope she doesn't get hooked on this right because that's what happened like I am so fortunate that during my prescription opioid addiction I never tried heroin because that scenario right there is very common right where somebody offers you something stronger like I had many occasions when a dealer would be out of pills and they would be like but I got heroin and like luckily I never progressed to that but the thing is like many people they progressed to heroin and it's cheaper it's a stronger high it's more potent it's more dangerous right so when Rue tried to fentanyl I'm like oh god I hope she doesn't get addicted to this because like you saw in the first episode where she talks about like she's constantly just chasing that right but the second thing I thought was you know what her dealer I was told my girlfriend I'm like her dealer bet he had some Narcan and she's like what what if he doesn't have Narcan but then a few seconds later she like he the dealer told his little brother whoever that kid is like yo go get the Narcan just in case booga so those of you who don't know what Narcan is if you have anybody in your life who is struggling with a opioid addiction like please check this your state laws check your pharmacies check your doctors and ask them about the availability of Narcan because in many states I know we started doing it here in Nevada you could buy Narcan over the counter and when Narcan is it is an opioid overdose reversal drug okay so when opioid overdose happens like opioids are a depressant causes shallow breathing all sorts of things you can vomit choke on your vomit all sorts of stuff but what happens is is basically by the way I went through a Narcan training so trust me on this so anyways what happens is is the opioids are blocking the opioid receptors right or they're they're inhabiting the opioid receptors what Narcan does like almost instantly as it comes in and it pops those things right out so you go right you will be saved from an overdose but depending on how much you did how pointed it was like I've heard of some people needing like four or five hits of Narcan in order to be revived Narcan comes in a few different forms typically it's like a nasal spray some of them are like a shot or whatever it is but always have Narcan available like if you look in your city for like Narcan trainings like I know there's places here in Las Vegas like if you go through a Narcan training sometimes it will give you like a free Narcan kit but also like I said check with your pharmacies like I almost guarantee and you can let me know let me know down in the comments below if your state or your area does this but I can almost guarantee in areas where heroin is a major problem like in the Pacific Northwest or like in West Virginia and places like that where a ton of people are using heroin I guarantee there is easier access to Narcan so it's important that you know what that stuff is because you might be able to save a life all right but anyways anyways again let me know down in the comments below if there's any other characters that you want me to break down from episode two and talk about you know something that they're dealing with if you can relate to it let me know so I can make some more videos on it all right anyways that's all I got for this video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos and a huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon you're all amazing and if you'd like to become a patron support what I'm doing here get access to some other perks and benefits click or tap right there all right thanks again so so much for watching I'll see you next time