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Unrealistic examples of drug abuse on TV (House, etc.)

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Aight yall, after thinkin long and hard I decided this dont belong in film and tv. Its a issue relevant to drug culture and i think that in here ppl will have a much better idea of wat they talking about than in film and tv.

As a drug user, do you watch shit on TV and be like, "damn, this is just, so wrong? They got it alllll wrong?"

For my example ill use House since last night I just re-watched some older episodes and realized, damn....they are wayy off point with the way they showed houses addiction gettin worse. The thread aint about House's pill problem, u can mention any unrealistic drug abuse situations u know of that u seen on tv shows, house is just the main one ive noticed. Anyways....

if u have watched the show and like it, u know that house had to go to rehab cuz he took too much vicodin and all the assholes at his work got on his ass about it, even tho the "signs" that he was taking too much was totally ridiculous. he started hallucinating and they decided it was cuz of the vicodin which i just never heard of , its kinda silly IMO. its retarded, you dont start havin straight up, non-nodding, full time hallucinations from takin too much OPIATES. Especially not a weak-ass drug like vicodin.

He asks his boss, this broad Cutty, to come home with him and help him detox. he tells her all his stash spots, etc and he starts W/ding within like 10 minutes of his last dose. anyways, he is in misery, pain, sweating, etc, a generally OK picture of withdrawals, except that in the morning, he WAKES UP from SLEEP, and is TOTALLY OK. Apparently vicodin only takes like 8 hours to detox completely from. in the morning after he gets up hes good as new again.....which, come on he wouldnt even have been able to sleep.

The thing that gets me is that sometimes, once in a while, they will show a very accurate and good picture of pills abuse, or one of the effects, and it will be like damn, they just got that right on. For example when they had him takin methadone for one episode, they discovered he was on it cuz he was nodding out hardcore, more than usual. straight up just almost-dead levels of nodding, and its very true--a new methadone patient WILL nod his/her ass off for the first few days. Anyways, after he got discovered, his boy wilson is askin him why he take it , if it helps his pain, and house said "No, it dont help my pain. It annihilates my pain." And thats very true, methadone is a GREAT pain med, it does kill pain better than even oxycodone, IMO and I been on both.

And it was jus odd to me how they could get somethin like that so right, somethin thats really drug-user knowledge, or at least something that only a pain patient would really know and aint common knowledge, its just a subtle detail but then get major shit wrong, shit thats a key part of the plot, like detoxing in one night, or the idea that vicodin could cause hallucinations, just makes me wonder where the hell they gettin their research from.

Anyways, I aint gonna make this first post too long, there is more i got to add but ill save it for later...Its just that i get mad cuz ppl watch these shows, ignorant ppl , and they think the shit is true. they get a totally mis guided idea about the truth about shit like this and think they "know" about "signs" of drug use, etc from shows that portray it totally wrong. you give a ignorant person a lil bit of knowledge and its a dangerous thing.

Anyways, wats some other examples yall have seen? In other shows, in the same show, etc, it dont matter, but post any examples of misguided, wrong, almost-right-but-still-off, or just straight up totally false, mis leading ways of showing drug addictions or abuse on a TV show. I always wonder why how these days we got all these crime shows and shit with every little detail down to the hair fibers researched to hell and back but yet shows that is showing drug use will just pull some shit out of their asses and put it on TV without even tryna get the research to make it authentic.
 
Remember on Saved by the bell when jesse (the chick from showgirls) got addicted to caffine pills and wigged the fuck out.
 
well this was on the radio sorry if im off topic


scott weilend the singer from stone temple pilots was on howard stern, saying this guy gibby got him addicted to heron , its like i know you are a knucklehead, but nobody did this to you, you did it yourself mr rockstar. it kinda angered me alot ~ maybe someone helped you hit your first vein, but the choice was yours,
 
I always wonder why House continues to take Vicodin and doesn't move on to a stronger pain med. I mean, if I were a chronic pain patient/doctor with plenty of doctor hookups, i think I would be on a much stronger opiate than hydrocodone. Not to mention in the show the hydro's don't seem to effectively control his pain as he always takes like a handful, and a doctor would clearly know that the amount of APAP he is consuming on a daily basis is very harmful to his liver.
 
in every TV show ever they give weed the stupidest name. like theyll show it making these kids go on acid trips or like being super drunk.
 
yeah in one of the friday movies when the dude smokes a joint and then sees a talking head in the cupboard when he goes to get food.
 
A lot of shows and movies portray all withdrawals to be the same as heroin ( and other opiates).

Like in the show "The Cleaner", it was pretty accurate, and it was based on a real person so I figure he would have had input, but anyways....

If he was helping straighten somebody out, lets say they had an addiction to methamphetamine, he would detox them. And they would show theses people up all night, kicking, and sweating like a person going through opiate withdrawal would be.

It just seems like a lot of T.V shows make it seem like if you use ANY drug for a while that you will be withdrawing for days with physical symptoms of not sleeping, sweating and puking all the time, and kickin hard.
 
the simpsons when homer gets a script to medical bud and then goes on like a candyflip crazy ass trip 8)
 
How about Fresh Prince of Bel-air when Carlton takes Will's pep pills aka amphetamine unknowingly at prom and starts dancing and acting a fool then totally freaks out and goes to the hospital. Really, he takes like 3 pills and has that strong of effects, I don't think so. Not to mention if he really did get that high he'd know something was up.

Keeping with the will smith shows, i'll include bad boys I. The part when Martin lawrence takes two ectacy pills and Will and some other guy put him in a bathtub of cold water so he doesn't have a heat stroke 8) . Seriously 15 year old girls take 2 or 3 pills and dance their asses of in 120 degree party's all the time without issue, but no Martin Lawrence's brain might melt unless he's put in a bath of icewater

BTW great thread idea Lacey K as always
 
Psychedelic use isn't exactly drug abuse, but TV shows and movies always portray LSD and shrooms as seeing unicorns and stuff, EX- Harold and Kumar.
 
It always pissed me off how on Lost the heroin resembled fucking potting soil, and he would just grab some out of the bag with his fingers and sniff it out of his palm...
 
^ That reminds me of how weed on tv and in movies, including "half Baked" is never in nug form but instead looks like shake or some sort of stringy, shredded shit.

I'm also a little confused by Weeds. Every time Nancy buys an ounce or two of bud she pays like 2 grand. WTF, did Weed get expensive in Cali or am I just getting sweet prices.
 
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yeah i forgot about the heroin on lost. He doesnt even snort it just rubs it on his gums for some reason....i could really relate to the episode when hes finally kicked and all happy about it and then like a day later discovers basically a lifetime supply....what a choice.
 
on 7th heaven the pastor pops finds a joint the house and tears his oldest sons a new one cuz he admitted it was his. the scene itself is very cheesy but histerical, i cant link you oj my phone but youtube "7th heaven weed".
 
I was always tripped out by watching House and always seeing him take like thirty vicodins in an episode when I know that anyone in the medical field, especially House would know that's way too much APAP and would switch to something else. The only thing I can think of is that the producers of the show probably think (and possibly rightly so) that the general public will be more accepting of House as a Vicodin addict than say a Morphine or Heroin addict. But still, even popping Oxycontin would seem more realistic than Vicodin. I mean the guy's a doctor at the top of his game, not some drug ignorant moron. (I've watched every episode of house, most more than once, love the show)
 
cocacrazy said:
I'm also a little confused by Weeds. Every time Nancy buys an ounce or two of bud she pays like 2 grand. WTF, did Weed get expensive in Cali or am I just getting sweet prices.
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word I feel you. i think during the point on the show where shes buying zips from that lady she also owes her a bunch of money too. so maybe paying past debts + buying a few Zs. Its funny when she finds out theres "better stuff" out there and trys coming at the lady with the same amount of money that she was paying for mids though

i always wondered the same thing about house. Why Vicodin?

And my favorite all time TV drug episode was the Home Improvement where Al finds like a 1/4th oz in Tim's back yard (which was his son's). "That's not oregano, Tim..." lol
 
The first season of Nurse Jackie, a woman comes into the hospital with her husband. They both believe the wife is pregnant because she is puking, cold sweats etc. It turns out the woman is w/ding from a vicodin habit, and they actually listed all the symptoms spot on. The thing is the woman looked PERFECTLY fine. She is saying she is experiencing all these things but she looks happier than a pig in shit. Fuck, i know when im w/ding, every fucking person comes up to me and tells me "wow you look like shit".
 
previouslyhere said:
i always wondered the same thing about house. Why Vicodin?
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I know why this is. Sure, since he is a doctor he should know that vicodin is crap and all that tylenol is liver overkill.

BUT, I'm sure the producers of the show realized that vicodin is the most common "socially acceptable" opiate. And it's true, vicodin doesn't have the huge stigma as other opiates, and that's understandable as it doesn't lend itself as a junkie drug, since its hard to abuse with all the tylenol (can only be effective orally).

House could have chose morphine, MAYBE, but forget about Oxycontin or Herion, that would just create a bad image for the show.

In the context of network TV, politics always supersede logic/reality.
 
i really liked how the portrayed LSD in men who stare at goats. hilarious! hahah. and realistic imo.
 
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