oh we do I love science and Bill Nye
just dropped a massive mic when it comes
to the science of addiction what is up
everybody this is Chris from the rewired
salt where we talk about the problem but
focus on the solution and there is a
massive problem going on which is a
shame because it is Mental Health
Awareness Month and this problem is that
people do not fully understand addiction
and it is something that is killing tens
of thousands of people in the United
States alone each and every year so in
season 3 episode 3 Bill Nye talks about
the science of addiction so first and
foremost I gotta give a shout out to
Alicia Nicole over on the defranco now
for recommending this episode to me like
if any of you are on the iPhone you want
a cool app to use usually different code
now come follow me it's really cool
awesome conversations going on but
anyways she told me about this episode
of Bill Nye and I'll be honest with you
I love Bill Nye growing up as a kid
cause I've always just loved science but
I haven't watched any of his new
episodes since he came to Netflix and I
will say the most disappointing part of
this episode is that they don't have the
old theme song like it was so catchy
anyways please do me a favor and share
this video if people don't want to
listen to you or me about the science of
addiction and how it's a disease maybe
just maybe they'll listen to Bill Nye
the frickin Science Guy ok so in this
episode you know obviously the topic is
addiction and yes the audience like how
many of you in here have been affected
by addiction 75 80 % of the hands go up
right first software he's explaining the
way on the neural pathways change in the
brain based on rewards and reward based
learning
okay because he's showing how like you
know these positive rewards that we get
you know from coffee to going on social
media and we get this positive
reinforcement in the form of like mice
or shares or retweets or whatever it is
and then he gets some negative comments
right and then he turns to alcohol maybe
starts guzzling a bottle of pills a slot
machine this is kind of how addiction
works right now one thing I love about
this episode is that they talked about
addiction as a whole they didn't just
cover drugs and alcohol
they also talks a lot about behavioral
addictions which we don't talk about
enough and behavioral addictions like
we're talking about like shopping
gambling sex can be one okay
so they is kind of cool they actually
have lesson correspondents who go out
and about so one of the correspondent
she actually went to a university where
they're studying gambling addiction and
it was so cool it was so so cool so what
they had they have an fMRI brain scan
okay so basically they use this really
powerful magnet to kind of see what your
brains doing and how it's responding to
stuff right so inside this brain scan
like you're laying upside down like this
and it has
machine going and what they're doing is
they're monitoring your dopamine system
to see how you respond to wins and
losses and here's a thing right here
okay it shows the difference between a
normal brain and an addicted brain as
you can see clearly clearly an addicted
brain responds differently to stimuli
than a normal brain okay people with an
addiction they can access flood of
dopamine and when this happens the
reward pathways tell this person to go
go go go go
this is science everybody and that's why
I put it right here respect this science
okay so we kind of do this roundtable
where the correspondent is back there
and then they also have documentary take
your pills as well and then they have a
lieutenant from Ohio those of you who
didn't get the memo oh man kudos to this
guy kudos to him he's talking about how
like they realize like how bad the
epidemic was and they needed to quit
locking people up and jailing them and
stop offering them treatment so where
he's at in that County they're providing
people with detox services social
services helping them to get back on
their feet get therapy get treatment and
all sorts of other things right and
check this out check this out
for everybody who thinks that we just
need to lock up all these drug offenders
he managed to save his County with this
new kind of method managed to save them
half a million dollars last year that's
your money that is taxpayer money okay
it is far more expensive to incarcerate
these people with addictions than it is
to simply treat them and help them go on
to live these better successful lives so
at this roundtable to come talking about
the stigma and what people don't
understand about it the psychology
you know he said like you know they
don't have nearly enough time for them
to talk about you know all the things
people get a wrong about addition but
the one point that he touched on is that
we need to quit looking at this as a
moral failing right because people are
just like oh this person just has a weak
willpower oh they can give up if they
wanted to oh they were just a better
person and that's not the case like most
people most people have an underlying
psychological disorder right and think
about it this can be depression this can
be anxiety this can be ADHD okay this
can be bipolar right but one of the big
ones I hope you watch my video on
adverse childhood experiences one of the
big ones is your environment growing up
and traumatic experiences these are
things that are completely out of
people's control and it can make them
more prone towards addiction right so I
love how they talk about how we need to
start looking at this as a mental health
crisis and nothing's like criminal thing
where we need to lock everybody up like
I see the most disheartening comments my
video on opiate withdrawal is getting
more and more views I think it just
passed 40,000 there are just so many so
many comments on there are people just
demonizing these addicts because a lot
of it is from misunderstanding or not
understanding you know the science
behind this thing okay anyways I'm not
gonna spoil the rest of the episode for
you like please like even if you do feel
like you understand addiction like go
watch this episode on Netflix okay it's
out now it's available now and like I
said to go out and share this video for
anybody out there who doesn't understand
the disease of addiction share this
video on your Facebook and social media
and stuff like that let's try to get
more people to get educated about
addiction because once people actually
understand the science behind this thing
then we can start working towards more
solutions alright but anyways if you
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