These Pharmaceutical Commercials Are Insane!
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2021
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The Opioid crisis is terrifying... but the Opioid advertisements are hilarious.
Join us as we react to the ridiculous commercials that created one of the most devastating epidemics in America. - Комедії
I forgot that other countries don't have medicine commercials. It's weird to think that it's been so normalized in America.
Awww man, how depressing. Don't worry though, it won't last long. We've been getting more and more American ever since the 80s. The commercials are coming soon.
@@Boy_Boy i'm so sorry to hear that
We've got them here in NZ so it's definitely not just America that normalises this!
You'd be surprised by how many things yall normalized that would make a literal third world country gasp
@@DimIsHigh mhm like rampant opioid addiction, and clean water.
That intro hit close to home.. I used to race motocross and would routinely break bones. Never took pain-meds except once and that one time was a genuinely bad injury. They worked and I forgot how much pain I was in.. then I stopped taking them and became violently ill, incapable of sleep, hot and cold, highly anxious and in more pain than before I took them. I was fucking 16 and when I told the doctor what was happening he literally said, “oh, yeah you are going through opioid withdrawal.” At no point was that possibility mentioned and it would lead me to struggle with addiction for the following 4 years.
This shit fucked up my life for a long time and I’m still pissed about it.
My mum was prescribed doxys for her depression and the doctor's never told her that it was only for short term. She ended up being on it for a year or so and her dosages doubled, she was at the point where it didn't do anything anymore so she went cold turkey. No research or doc told her too, she went about three days without side effects and then it hit like a buss. She spent weeks in bed crying and begging to die, it was a tough time. She's past it now, that was about four years ago but I cant believe doctors are so lax with these drugs!!
@@amberruby4896 I hate to say it bro but they tell you it's for short term on the packaging and on the patient information leaflet. She was just addicted bro it happens more often than you think.
@@cameronallan9930 yeh she was addicted that's why she went into withdrawal, and you need a script to continue getting the medication so the doctor's where well aware that she was still on them.
@@amberruby4896 Oh, yeah, it's wild what doctors just _don't_ tell patients, even though it's their responsibility as the prescriber. A doctor in my hometown got my grandmother addicted to benzos. As in, he kept advising her to take more and was like "oh sure, it's fine to take them with a glass of wine!" (it's not). The same doctor also carelessly injured me as a child (not major, but enough that my mom switched docs). It turned out he'd had a _bunch_ of complaints filed against him over the years, no clue how he still had a job- I suppose, like us, nobody had enough money to launch a court case.
I'm glad your mom and the OP are doing better, this country is such a mess when it comes to medicine.
@@mackenziedesire7515 Its just insane because she wasn't given any plan to move away from them either, just take more, here's another script with a higher dosage. She's been on all types antidepressants and mood stabilisers her whole life so she knew that she shouldn't be taking them for as long as she had been, that why in the end she decided to go off them herself. She just never went in for another dosage, which also should have alerted the doctor's because it's so dangerous to do yourself. Anyways it's in the past, but it's so sad that there's so many similar cases, these are as the video said 'legal heroin' , it should be handled with so much more care.
I hope your grandmother is well now and with the right doctors
When I was a kid, they used to say all the side effects as quickly as possible. It sounded like an auctioneer. I remember the first commercial I saw like this where you could clearly hear everything they say, it was so wild. Now it's normal though.
they always would fast forward the warnings at the end and all the side effects would be in the smallest font at the bottom lol
Now that you mention it, you're right. They all kinda stopped talking fast at once. It must've become illegal or something.
@@mariothingy it did! Added the law that those side effects had to be audible in radio and tv ads and such
@@zsanetick OOH that explains it. I was wondering why in the world would they willingly spend so much time going over each and every possible side effect. Though a law like that is the least they can do, if the US is gonna keep allowing prescription drug ads like this.
@@imaginekudryavka9485the idea of prescription ads is so ridiculous to me. yeah, as a doctor I'm totally going to listen to you when you ask for a drug you saw off of TV instead of just prescribing you cheaper drugs that I actually know work. why trust the man who went to medical school and specialized in your condition when you could just trust corporations on the television?
The black woman in the OxyContin ad was in a documentary I watched about the opioid epidemic. She became addicted and lost everything, it ruined her entire life. As someone who was also prescribed opioids, at a very young age at that, and became addicted there’s something about it that makes me feel very sick. I can only imagine if someone took a video of me speaking about how great it was early on.. and then just a couple years later my life was hell and misery because of it.
You are sure that wasnt like a series?
@@lebowski3748 it may have been a docu-series.
i thought her face looked familiar.
@@Makyah Dopesick
I had an appendectomy at 18, got prescribed 15mg oxycontin and 1 year later I was snorting heroin. Legit ruined my life for years and I beat myself up a lot trying to get off of it. Fuck these pharmaceutical execs, put all of them in prison.
as an american this video is fucking hilarious. i’ve grown up seeing this shit on cable my whole life so watching people react to it as foreign is an interesting watch. you guys could 100% do another video about prescribed steroids and meth (now for kids!!)
yeah same lol
Its really sad that we've become desensitized to this stuff
Tbh as a person with adhd I depend on my prescribed meth-adjacent substance to function but having ads for it on television is fucked.
Are there ads for medicine????
@@AmarnathpPp we have ads for everything pretty much
i remember in the early 2000s the oxy ads didnt just tell you to ask your doctor for them they encouraged you to keep looking for a new doctor until you found one that did give it to you
Bro what.
@@sampletexthere yeah they called it “finding the right doctor”. The commercial basically walked you through how to get a prescription. You know how it is getting a medical weed card, where it’s just kind of a wink and a nod and they say you have an issue with your eye pressure or whatever BS? It used to be like that to get oxy.
@@nicksurfs1 There used to be a ton of "pain clinics" that were essentially just tiny cheap rental office spaces that you would go in and pay the "appointment fee" to just get written a magical script for whatever that backroom doc was getting kickbacks from that month. They've all been closed and shut down from what I know but god damn the opiate epidemic was mask off for a long ass time and we will feel the devastation of it for basically the rest of humanities existence it seems. This shit is never gonna be set right, or even close to what it was before all that started.
love that they just unapologetically tell you to do shit that addicts do
As an American, I forget how weird it is that commercials for prescription drugs are so normal to me. It is fun to see this perspective.
Yeah, I can't imagine how boring this video would be... is it like watching someone review the TV guide?
@@Boy_Boy That first commercial was honestly pretty tame by US standards. Those sales videos were pretty wild though.
I mean, aren't you getting prescriptions from a doctor on what drugs to take? What's the point of advertising it to begin with if it's not your decision to make?
@Boy Boy honestly its really interesting i hope u guys do this again
@@DrNiradino a lot of people start begging for prescriptions or making up stories, and also i think (don't quote me on that) that doctors are paid per prescription by the pharmaceutical company, so they're happy to oblige
As someone who was 15 when they were prescribed oxycontin, that advertisement made me incredibly angry and sad. I was on that shit for 8 years, went off them cold turkey because the alternative was taking Valium. That shit took away priceless things from me and made me a monster that I regret every day. The saddest part of it all is that I found the same relief with marijuana. But because it was illegal and the government couldn't profit off it, they would make me have clean piss tests to keep receiving opioids. Now it's the opposite in Canada and I'm even more frustrated because it was all about them not being able to make money from marijuana in the early 2000s. I couldn't buy lottery, porn, fireworks, drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes, but heroin is ok because $$
That sucks, but at least you were still fairly young when you got off them; and congrats for quitting cold turkey, that's awesome! In my experience, the people that love you never thought you were as much of a monster as you saw yourself, and instead of wallowing in regret you're better off just moving forward and making whatever amends you need/want to. I'm sorry the system fucked you and I wish you many a fat spliff and an addiction free future. Good luck, dude!
@@mackenziedesire7515 thank you for your kind words! Well still addictive but in more of a mental way. A lot easier to manage and I can't overdose.
@@streetpeter3210 Weed addiction is real man haha but its sooo easy to get over compared to other shit.... 2 or 3 nights of crappy sleep and then I am back to normal.... but man I love weed haha!
@@Pollencakes Standardised doses are perfectly fine, if administered by a doctor.
Just because your mother told you you are special it doesn't make you any different than 99% of the other 100kg 6ft tall males on the planet, at least biologically speaking to a medication dose...
they gave me ritalin/dexies when i was 8, shit made me so depressed till i turned 15 and found out about weed
I swear I have seen a commercial for an antidepressant before and one of the side effects was suicidal thoughts, like what's the point of even taking it then?
I noticed that on a packet of some I had, I think it’s essentially a disclaimer since a lot of people will be prescribed it for suicidal thoughts, in case it doesn’t work and they end up committing suicide, nobody can then take the drug company to court and say it was a direct result of it
Psych major here, a lot of antidepressants increase the suicidality of depressed people, as they (if they work correctly) increase an individuals general motivation, while the individuals life likely still feels unfulfilling as meaningful change takes longer.
Interesting, still pretty messed up, though.
They all have that and it’s hilariously sad, I wish my friend wasn’t super depressed so that I know this
One of the symptoms of depression is not having any energy to do anything and when you treat depression that’s one of the things your trying to stop, if you have suicidal thoughts but no energy to act on them the meds can sometimes in giving you more motivation it can leave the thoughts and it can just give ppl the energy they didn’t have to off themselves. That’s why doctors warn abt this with antidepressants. Antidepressants are’t sketchy, I’d say they help more than they hurt to be honest. I had a pretty dark time in my life and antidepressants helped a lot, I got out and don’t need them anymore now.
My Mom took Chantix to stop smoking . What i didn't know is that she was having auditory hallucinations for weeks culminating in her walking up and down the halls of her apartment building with a glass on her neighbours doors listening for the " Russian" type music she was hearing at all hours. Her upstairs neighbours who she was friends with thought she was slipping into dementia. Then she remembered the Chantix and started researching the side effects on her own and blam. She told me the entire story it was whack. I live across the street and this was going on for weeks but she didn't even mention it. What a trooper ! Finally she went into the underground parkade and got in her car closed the door and she said when she still hear the "music " she started crying and laughing because she knew she wasn't losing it like her Father , my Grandfather . Even after she stopped the effects lasted for a few months but she was able to kinda block it out. As a funny side note i caught her smoking the other day after she quit 5 years ago. Good times.
I have friend tried jumping off a tall balcony on that psychopharmacological drug horrible.
Its no joke, fucked me bad. Took months to feel normal again.
Chantix fucked me up. And I didn't even fucking quit because of it
It wasn't too bad for me, mostly a constant stomach cramp like I had swallowed a smooth fist sized rock and constant nightmares, of all the people I know who have had it I had the fewest and most manageable side effects, everyone else I know you would basically think they were weeks into a bath salt or meth binge.
I used to take Ritalin, i’d count how many people said hello back to me and if that number was below a threshold i’m beat the absolute shit out of someone that I shouldn’t have stood a chance against in an attempt to get killed in the fight… i also found out i could swim more than 50 meters on a breath as long as i refused to breath before i reached my goal and that i could beat a large white tail buck to the ground if i jumped onto it’s back after chasing it to exhaustion…
surprisingly lost my constant suicidal risk taking a few weeks after my doctor stopped prescribing it.
"Okay so he's a fentanyl spray"
I absolutely lost my shit
"capitalism encourages innovation!"
Capitalism:
Capitalism does encourage innovation. Look how many new weapons systems we have!
Omg okay commie
@@Kyle-gw6qp you are really a damn ignorant.
@@OhClarisse My comment may be biased, it may lie by omission, but it is not wrong.
Capitalism invented copium. Stand back in line please
Miss me with them "Cody and Noel" folks, I'm here for "boy and boy"!
Don't pit two groups of bad bitches against each other.
Cody and Noel semi-based tho. They are on our side in the war against the pewdiepies and jontrons
@@wehavebiscuits what fucking war? War on what? Like the fuck I could literally care less about jontron or pewdiepie so who is fighting this “war”
@@f.f5771 chill
@@wehavebiscuits I like jontron, he puts so much effort into his production quality
my favorite one is “new or worsening heart failure”. its HEART FAILURE. it cant get WORSE than that.
It’s not binary. You’re heart doesn’t have 2 states: functioning and failing. There are degrees to which it can fail, like any other part of the body. Heart failure can be slowed down or worsened. It’s not a binary state.
I mean there are levels of heart failure
The guy in the Chantix ad is named Herb N.. I've known him for a really long time. He's a very cool retired Graphic Artist and one of the nicest and truly genuine people I've ever met. Chantix actually worked for him to quit smoking and he believed in it. The product was fairly new at the time and he was one of the earliest success stories, so they offered him the role in the commerical.
Your boy got great big bags under his eyes
Have homie get checked for sleep apnea, there’s no way he’s getting good sleep with those bags
He sounds like a nice guy 😊
I mean stopping one addiction by starting another is a valid method.
yeah but people usually try to replace it with something healthier not something that will kill u in 5 years rather than 40
Polysubstance abuse for the win
@@otto3619 That's the same addiction, just a healthier medium.
Sure, if you're switching from a nicotine addiction to a caffeine addiction or something, but switching from pretty much any addiction to a fentanyl addiction is extremely not a valid method.
or ya know spending your money on the stock market and proceed to be in your 30's and in a midlife crisis
Chantix works but hot damn, those side effects aren't like with other drugs where it is a small chance, everyone in my family who tried it were just bonkers on it. Gave me nightmares and stomach cramps but it did work so no complaints. It completely eradicates the craving I think because the stuff in it binds to the receptors that accept the nicotine, I never had the actual urge to smoke but once while taking it I was kind of missing the feeling of holding a cigarette and tried one, and man it makes cigarettes taste like asphalt and burning tires, not trying to back up the company here, if anything they are underselling how dangerous the stuff is, no doubt it causes heaps of suicides, it had my calm, old, Christian aunt throwing plates around the house n shit lol.
My mother tried it (she worked in a medical office and the drug reps had offered to leave extra samples for her to try before getting a Rx). She would wake up from the worst night terrors I have ever heard. Just screaming bloody murder and it would take hours for her to calm down. I was 15 and I had no clue what the fuck was going on until later when she explained to me that it was a side effect of a quit smoking drug.
She was still on it during thanksgiving and things were getting behind schedule as they usually do. But instead of just ya know, going with it. She went berserk and smashed a stack of plates against the counter while screaming through gritted teeth that "we will be having a nice sit down dinner as a family." I was standing less than a foot from her, and that moment of her breaking like 5 plates in one fell swoop while declaring something mundane in the most aggressive way possible in seared into my brain over ten years later.
Chantix should never have gone to market. It hurt people and their families the side effects were so bad.
It's easy to laugh at these drug commercials, and it's a horrible thing that's so common here in America, but you gotta understand, there is ZERO consistency with sick time off from work. Every person I know has a story about when they were too sick to work but were forced to come in under the threat of being fired. Being a drugged up, contagious, fatally ill, glassy eyed sock puppet at the office or restaurant or whatever is perfectly acceptable, but taking a day off so you don't get anyone else sick is grounds for termination
i was prescribed oxycodone when my wisdom teeth were pulled, and it took two doses before i caught myself looking forward to the next one. i'm quite prone to addiction, so i decided to stop and rely on the weaker pain meds instead, and reading these comments makes me very glad i did.
(in USA) When I was 17, I was homeless and had a type of state health insurance for minors that essentially made any services or medicines prescribed in the ER completely covered. I had bronchitis that turned to pneumonia, and was allowed to walk out of the ER with a 16 oz bottle of codeine. I live in the worlds largest clown tent, the USA. Very endlessly thankful for the insurance, not very thankful for the 10 years of struggling to control myself around sedatives that has followed.
To answer your question, yes, we do have separate rich guy prisons in the US
Chantix is like “quit smoking, become a heroin addict today!”
chantix isn't even an opioid, what are you on about bro
Here in Denmark, you aren't allowed to advertise strong alcohol, medicine or tobacco on TV.
Nice :D
Same in sweden. They just show "non alcohol" beer in ads but we all know that's not what they mean.
Same here in the Uk
Can't advertise for gambling either here in Norway, except if it's broadcasted from abroad
Imagine the alternative for drug commercials, where it's just footage of people shooting up the drug, and downing pills while the voiceover plays.
I love this!
Drug commercial: This literal rebranded heroin will improve your life tenfold! It can even make Karen bring the kids back!
Also drug commercial: This drug may or may not lead to permanent depression, cancer, and erectile dysfunction.
yaknow one of those doesn't sound that bad tbh
Oxycodone is basically heroine but fifferent molecular structure, I took 35mg once for one of the "symptom" and it felt like i was very drunk. This drug will not make able to drive the car like a normal person let alone drop your kids or work. I dont understand how doctors think its okay. Maybe cuz they never tried it them selves. It helps people with cancer pain just imagine how strong it is.
@@Nour-hh7ok that's a bigger dose though without a tolerance. Without pretty chronic pain or a tolerance a doc wouldn't prescribe you that dose.
Yeah you're lying bout something no doctor would just not give someone 35mgs of oxy as a one off dose. A one off dose of oxy is 5-15mgs at the max and usually they will give weaker opioids like hydrocodone or tylenol with codeine. Hell im surprised they gave you oxy straight out of the gate since i would imagine that for a one off thing they would much rather prefer to give you an nsaid or something that isn't that addicitng since there is nothing to indicate you needed such a high dose without having build up a tolerance to it previously.
Now the only question is did Karen bringing the kids back cause those things or did the drug? Lmao
Dont forget that there are a population of people who do need these certain drugs. My mom had a messed up surgery and is now in pain 24/7, weed and other alternatives make her anxious and dont work. Many people abuse strong painkillers, but some people absolutely need them. Ever since the epidemic started her meds have been cut and her ability to do normal things has gone away. I wish that she got the treatment that she needs to not live in pain and others wouldnt mess that up for her and her family.
I don't think anyone denies that opiates are useful when medicating actually unbearable pain.
BOY BOY/ I did a thing, A collaberation with internet historian and you guys would be my dream. I think you guys would make a good fit for "in the field"
Chantix is an opioid? I didn't know lol. I am an AA in recovery from drug addiction. But u guys are both so funny; my new favorite commentary vids 💕❤️ and it says a lot about y'all that u respond to like everyone's comments. Thanks 😊!
Thanks Jennifer! Our fingers are sore
It's not an opioid!
No Champix (Chantix) is not an opiate. It was first used as an antidepressant that caused depression instead on some people but they noticed that it was causing people to give up smoking. Now it's uses to just give up smoking.
Chantix is not an opiate it's a choline agonist I think. Either that or its like wellbutrin and it's a stimulant like pharmaceutical bath salts. They're called cathinones
as someone who took opioids for chronic pain the withdrawal is fucking horrific. you end up in more pain after for a while bc your body forgets how to deal with it. don't even get me started on the insomnia and nausea and the extremely elevated anxiety levels. im not from the US so thankfully i'm not bombarded with ads like this but watching this stuns me. it's insane how people aren't informed about opioid withdrawals by their doctors, even outside of the US.
The constipation is brutal.
That submarine rap was before its time
Thank you boys for still uploading even though the last video got taken down. Your perseverance is greatly appreciated. There isn't content on this platform that teaches this way of thinking in such a fun and accessible way like you guys do. You really make a difference and please continue working hard.
They took down the other videos? Hmm wonder why?
Watching a series on OxyContin and that ad for it was actually so messed up and sad that same lady grew tolerant to this “new opioid “ and she was just prescribed more and more form 10mg to like 160mg of it until she actually fell asleep constantly at work lost her job and became homeless or something kinda ironic when u see the ad now. Whole thing was messed up
When it popped up on screen that she was taking 30/mg oxys every single morning to go to work, I immediately got so depressed because that is no low dose. It gets way higher due to tolerance of course but popping a 30 every morning when you wake up, and lets be real probably at least one or two more at the end of her day for sleep, that is going to set in very intense addiction before her first script is even out. Horrible horrible. Not to mention that the fentanyl m box 30s, or the "blues", that have taken over the countries opiate addicts almost entirely are molded to look like an Oxy 30 mg. Just a bit of added horrifying irony there.
Source: trust me, Im one of those opiate addicts that has fallen to the Fentanyl 30s. Its all absolutely zero fun
This was oxycontin extended release, 30mg of that prob feels like half if not less of instant release
mmm, nothing like some dystopian comedic loathing ❤️
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Even the dog looked miserable to be in this commercial:(
“This medication didnt turn me in a zombie, its turned me into an active person” what a good description of a drug giving you energye again and making you active again lol. Its like shes hiding that it actually makes you a zombie
In small doses that are managed regularly by your doctor, and not increasing the dose it doesn’t make you a zombie. Some ppl have pain conditions where they need pain medicine I’ve been on the same lowest possible dose of opioid twice a day for 5 years and I’m more of a zombie without my medication bc that’s what severe pain does to your brain. Ive never been high on my medication. Not everyone does well with narcotics. Some ppl can’t manage the dose and need to increase or have addictive personalities. It’s definitely not for everyone. But not everyone who uses narcotic pain meds is high or addicted or a zombie. There are ppl with genetic medical conditions that cause even the most mundane actions like swallowing liquid to be agonizingly painful. Many of them need pain medicine.
@@ENT683Yes it's sad that pain patients are paying the price for the opiod epidemic. I mean - opiate use in the west started growing in the 60's, homelessness is on the rise, little or no mental health support - drug use is obviously increasing. To suggest that pharmaceutical meds, as horrific as they are, have been the major cause of drug abuse in the west is incorrect. The problem is big pharma can't come up with a painkiller that works better than opium.
I got addicted to opioids to quit my addiction to nicotine.
Reminder that some of these drugs, specifically opioids, save lives including mine when used responsibly and the patient is made aware of the side affects and the percentages and other options are used first. My pain gets so severe that I want to self delete and most opioids take the edge off but I’m very anti big pharma and know the harm it can cause. it’s hard and there is so much nuance
A very important point you bring up. I think it's important to distinguish between the medicine itself and the pharmaceutical industry. Medications such as Oxycodone, Fentanyl, Morphine etc are very useful and effective medications and certainly do have legitimate uses in the medical field (Pallative, Severe Chronic Pain that is unresponsive to non opioid analgesia etc.) What the pharmaceutical industry has done is disgusting and has resulted in the deaths of many people. However we in the medical field and the community as a whole need to be careful not to demonise the medications themselves and although it's important to stop drug addicts, pill farms etc, genuinely sick people who are suffering from very real pain need access to whatever treatment is working to help them live a meaningful and valuable life. In my opinion I have seen first hand some situations were genuine patients have paid the price and have been denied their medication as the doctors were being frightened by the government and threatened with sanctions in some cases unfairly. We need to find a good medium that allows genuine patients access to the care they require whilst focusing on harm reduction for addicts and punishment for criminals who abuse the system.
As someone who was deep in the pit of addiction years ago now, and being lucky enough to come out on the other end alive and having avoided the diseases that usually come with the territory, these "medications" still seem more dangerous than sharing needles by the river to me honestly. Just reading other comments here about people taking medication to quit smoking, then having auditory hallucinations, or just being given opioids without any real warninh sounds insane to me.
I really hope things like these "medications" become illegal ASAP, but you know that the people controlling things are the ones making tons of money off this BS, so they will probably keep being sold and given out like candy.
Thanks for doing the things you do, boy and boy.
One love!
-Mick
I was on a mix of two different opioids during a hospital visit and can state for certain you pretty much zombify any thing close to daily use. I was on morphine until I tripped one too many balls then I was moved to Oxycodone up until my recovery. I was prone to active night terrors of varying severity and straight up delirium. I had points where I was putting soy sauce from a pot noodle into a coffee, putting on odd shoes and an accidental dislocation here and there. Hands down fun if you don't need to anything while on them, down right stupid to let people use them at home.
Jeez... I get like that with weed sometimes but at least I know it won't kill me. I hope your recovery went smoothly other than the meds
@@Marlyjade Thank you. Recovery was fine to be honest the phantom nerve pain was way worse. Crazy to think that your body no matter what can remember pain it didn't really experience.
That's crazy I've never heard anything like that from opioids. I was addicted for a long time and for me it's euphoria and energy
The guy in a costume being a literal fetanyl spray was crazy
American satire is its own breed because we're living in the satire. Another 50 years or so till we turn into idiocracy
Driving around in GTA and the radio doesn't even sound that far off anymore
Opioids killed the love of my life and completely ruined my life. I’m five years clean now, but I’m still suffering from the aftermath of my addiction after all these years.
So boy boy is back for good??
just cherish them while they're here
They've been back for a bit now 😁
It’s unbelievable that it isn’t a requirement for people to be told the possible addictive consequences of taking a drug for a prescribed period of time.
Dude I can’t stress how much I love you. I did not know about this, I only knew the I did a thing.
Accents unite
Chantix is no joke, that shit fucked my head up, i was having ridiculous nightmares when i could sleep, my depression nose dived. Took over a month off it before i felt semi better. I wouldnt suggest anyone try it
Holy shit, that's absolutely wild! I'm glad you're feeling better now!
So... Did use Chantix (marketed here in Oz as Champix) to quit for short period before relapsing, and while I hope it helps some people I have pretty conflicted feelings about it. First, a side effect they didn't cover is that when I took it I got stomach cramps, taking with water and/or food was meant to help but it was still pretty unpleasant. And when I say cramp, I mean stabbing pains and a seizing up feeling. The vivid dreams are accurate - I slept like shit for the whole period, and had bizarre dreams I can't remember. There's also anhedonia and mood swings. To be fair, some of these things are just features of quitting, but I took it for three months without smoking (well past the end of physical symptoms) and these symptoms didn't end. All told it was a pretty unpleasant experience,
Just found you two and boy (oh) boy, I appreciate every minute here!
I love how the only part they said was good was the part where the song straight up ripped off rap god
ripping off eminem, a dude who came from a broken city partly destroyed by drugs, to make a shitty song to push opioids. they’ve gotta be self aware
Came here to make the same comment. It's so blatantly a rip off that it isn't even funny.
Just throw in an 'allegedly' every once in a while, you're grand. Works for Brain Blaze...
In medicine comercials in germany they only say this at the end:
For risks and side effects read the leaflet or ask your doctor and pharmasist.
FÜR RISIKEN UND NEBENWIRKUNGEN LESEN SIE DIE PACKUNGSBEILAGE ODER FRAGEN SIE IHREN ARZT ODER APOTHEKER!
Same in Spain
"This medication does not turn you into a zombie"
You know, for those of you who were worried. You won't start eating brains. Just relax and enjoy the brains-I MEAN medication.
18:17, Funnily enough (or not so funnily), in America, Meth is prescribable since it is not schedule 1. Prescribed Methamphetamine is known as Desoxyn.
Almost a year clean off fentanyl, love you guys, love the videos 😂💞 take care
I took champix, a European variant of chantix to stop smoking. It worked but I won almost all of the prices in the side-effects lottery. Everything from not feeling so good to feeling as sick as a dog barfing my stomach out. The dreams where awful sometimes and sometimes I would walked through the room as if I was drunk. It was a really bad experience but it worked. Not only did the drug stopped the workings of nicotine for a while, to stop me smoking, but also the memory of the side-effects I had discourageses me to start again.
I never understood chantix when buproprion works just as well and has less side effects. I was prescribed it to quit smoking and literally couldnt get through the first cigarette i took on the day i started and had side effects that fluctuated between mild to nonexistent.
Thanks for the upload comrades!
0:44 truly epic
the fast fentanyl rap is just the fast segment of rap god but about medicinal meth
This is great. I'm usually heckling these insanity nugs of consumerism gone mad by myself, or aloud to a room of unaffected peeps that don't see the hilarity I see in the bizarro world of advertising. Thanks Boy Boy!
It's even funnier when you see the parent company who's pushing this shit haha
I love how uncomfortable Alex gets when Aleksa tells him about his naughty dream about Alex
You guys are great. Incredible humor is the best way to speak about these topics
I stopped smoking 12 years ago and it was 100% thanks to this champix. I literally owe it my health and life. I still find those drug ads absolutely insane. Love your content.
This ad made me think about an SNL skit I saw the other day, satirizing these ads. I knew these ads existed but had never actually seen one, and the SNL skit went on for ages and got weirdly over the top. I now realise why. The actual ads are so fucking batshit that if you want to satirise them then you have to go even more over the top. If a British or Australian comedy show tried to make a joke about prescription drug ads that are overly cheery with horrible side effects, they would literally just make this chantix ad. The idea of someone calmly telling you that this drug might make you want to kill yourself with gentle music in the background is already so outrages and hilarious that you wouldn't need to go any further.
Love how they don't realize that it's supposed to be spoofing "Rap God" by Eminem with the rapping spray bottle. Someone has got to get them to react to the two of the videos side by side (hopefully without youtube giving them the shaft) for that sweet sweet content.
hahaha youtube would definitely give us the shaft, it was hard enough doing this one.
quality video as always, these mediction commercials are a work of art
I thought an ad was playing at first, good job getting the feeling of one of those ads down to the dot.
Chemical formula for pharma ads:
"Just add children"
If they taught the boxer rebellion in school I’d think we would’ve had an opioid epidemic
I mean fuck I only know about it from Bioshock Infinite, don't think it ever got mentioned once in High School US History (Had the class 2018-2019)
You guys are amazing!! Please keep making these videos I love them
Usually when they do these Drug Commercials, there’s 2 ‘Voices’ they’ll record. A softer talking voice for the drug, and a more direct Voice for the Drug side effects.
Love your guys Work! Hope you had a Nice Christmas & New Year
These kind of ads legit look like they were made by an AI, even the narrator sounds like a voice-bot.
Keep up with the great content !
You guys should do a video on ridiculous car ads as well. Or just about the depressing manipulative auto industry in general.
Like how they made the government pay for the interstate system 😅
i got the feeling one of them did a thing at one point
I am so happy to have found your channel. Been watching IDAT forever but this was never recomended.
the 96 dislikes represent the year that Purdue started aggressively advertising OxyContin
I always love when my family from Norway visits because they are constantly surprised by how shitty America is, right down to our commercials. I forget how strange it is that we have stuff like med commercials and it’s alway weirdly funny to see how foreigners react just to remind me. I have even seen one for a drug I’m on that is targeted towards middle aged men… I’m a 23 yo girl. It’s weird.
It's not weir ddifferent drugs are effective for different people of all ages and sex. That's just how chemistry works if it works for you and what you need it for that's great i imagine that it works equally well for middle aged men too.
2:30 I can confirm that this works very well. My dad tried this 8 months ago and has not smoked a single cigarette since
Pog
The feeling when they haven't seen the "where are they now" on the oxy commercial..
Just Subscribed, you are sooo underrated ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks so much mate, there'll be more videos coming!
I love this channel
You guys are amazing!
The chantix dreams are real. Shit was wild. A lengthy psychotic episode started around the time I started chantix now that i think back on it. Wonder if they're related
Chantix or Champex or whatever is fucked. My friend left her husband after he took it to quit smoking and locked her and the kids out of the house in Canadian winter and had a full breakdown. He was never the same after. He doesn't really go outside much now but on the plus side I'm pretty sure he doesn't smoke anymore
Unrelated, but: 0:55 you guys watch GeoWizard, that's awesome! You should try a "Mission across Australia" type of video too the both of you hahaha! (Well... Maybe not across the ENTIRETY of Australia, but a small part of it)
Oh mate, we love Geoguessr. It's an amazing game. Especially during Covid when it's harder to leave the country.
Hopefully there can be a GeoWizard colab soon
I love working for big pharma on commercials...they are so proud and ask if I've seen this one or that one. My favorite part is the face they make when I remind them they pay insane amounts of money to make these commercials and I pay $2 extra to not see any of it.
when i was diagnosed with Narcolepsy type 1 I got targeted ads for straight amphetamine and adderall. The stuff ruined my mental health for 2 years and I was totally hooked. I had to learn how not only survive off stimulants, but I had to learn to manage my narcolepsy that the medication made worse. The withdrawal often left me crying and shaking for days on end. It was hell. I don't know how they get away with this
drugs and medicine are two sides of the same coin. with the correct doses they can improve the quality of life of people who have neurological disorders, who would normally struggle with daily function otherwise. please don't feel discouraged from taking medication to be able to function because of sayings like "adhd meds are meth", "chronic pain meds are heroin" etc.
But also please don't take opoids like they are candy
I live in the US. They really did get everyone addicted Heroin! The death toll in my hometown has been staggering. Thanks Purdue.
I had a horrendous black out on chantix after i had a few beers, starting making animal noises got naked and ran up the street knocking on all the neighbours doors and then got pinned by the police on a green ants nest and driven home 🏡 proper mental break it was horrific
Literally got a pharmaceutical commercial during the mid roll ad. Cure for Hep C apparently. So thats... good. But it was surreal how identical it was structured to the exact videos theyre watching. Thought it was a fake ad roll they edited in at first tbh.
i love how the end of this video is them wishing they were doctors so they can get bribes.
Is there any chance you'd be willing to bribe a youtuber?
@@Boy_Boy fair point
I'm waiting for these two to collab with juice media that'd be dopeee
My dad used to use Chantix and he actually had the crazy/weird dream side effect and had to stop taking it. I remember him talking in his sleep very clearly and loudly it was insane
Seeing this it’s actually scary how similar unedited footage of a bear is to actual drug commercials
The doses of oxycontin those people are on in that commercial are absolutely insane. I used to be an oxycontin addict and at my worst I was "only" doing 80mg a day...
I knew one guy who I used to buy my pills off of and he was PRESCRIBED three 80mg oxycontin per day
i actually dont mind the medicine commercials because its so funny to hear how extreme the draw backs are from taking a minor pain reliever or something
This $600 pill will give you mild pain relief, sideeffectsincludewishingdeathuponyourselffamilychildrenandsmallpuppiesyoumayalsoexperienceextremenauseuaandyourheadmayjustblowup
The nice music being at such a disparity with side effects being listed and such is definitely still funny to me, and I'm exposed to it quite often. Commercials like that are a good 60% or so of cable TV
Bro I vividly remember seeing some of these on tv as a kid and never questioned anything till now 💀