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00:13:28.300But my attorney was this young guy who was really good, and I kind of got a relationship with him.
00:13:34.100fast forward 20 years he shows up i do a show that my wife produces called ask dr drew at two
00:13:40.480o'clock on pacific on tuesday and thursday and um four o'clock on wednesday so we're doing it
00:13:47.060four o'clock today and uh this guy turns up he's the city attorney for huntington beach he comes
00:13:53.640on my show because he's been suing newsom like 30 times successfully for all the overreach of
00:13:58.420government and huntington beach is just like this this oasis in california and turned out to be the
00:14:03.820same guy. And so we developed this, this friendship. And about two years ago, he goes, I think I think
00:14:10.080I can get attorney general. I think we can do that. Bontas is a nightmare. He's not even doing
00:14:13.980lawyering. He's not even doing his job. We got to get him out. And now he's has a very good chance
00:14:19.080of getting in. Wow. So you guys, I posted about him last night, I think it was. Please share the
00:14:25.600post, tag your California people, you know, reshare it, get the word out there. Dr. Drew
00:14:32.240knows he listen the doctor has spoken go ahead and look at what bonta's wife is doing who's in1.00
00:14:37.520the assembly she's proposed a bill to make it illegal for investigative journalists to investigate
00:14:44.560fraud in california are you aware of this bill wow oh and you must be aware of this it's amazing
00:14:49.680that they can even propose things like that i don't understand i mean how can you come out in
00:14:54.000favor of fraud like just blatantly i don't understand it it's like well news did newsom
00:14:59.120as soon as the fraud was emerged was exposed he went it's racist against um armenians you're being
00:15:04.640racist not not that there's fraud going up it's armenians by the way are they're certainly not a
00:15:10.480minority around here they're all of our friends armenians there's more armenians living in glendale
00:15:15.440than in armenia by a long margin uh and so you know that's not racist it's just so out of control
00:15:22.320like the you know the stat that came out that somalia's fraud is bigger than their gdp
00:15:26.480in Somalia. You hear about the president of Mexico being in the pocket of cartels, but
00:15:34.960at least she's smart enough not to say, yeah, I am. At least she says, no, no, that's not
00:15:41.380happening. With the things that Newsom and this other person is doing, you're literally saying
00:15:48.500you want to prevent people from stopping fraud? What exactly is your agenda? What possible logic
00:15:53.480could you have i don't think anyone buys that it's racist i know but the racist card seems to
00:15:58.180work for a lot of people still they're very very brainwashed which actually i wanted to ask you
00:16:02.800about dr jerry like seriously how this is a big loaded question but how do we cure these people
00:16:12.460with tds because we know whoever the next republican president is it's going to be
00:16:18.140that syndrome. It's not a Trump thing. This is a political thing. Because I always say if there
00:16:25.420was social media and all this stuff going on when George W. Bush was president, it would be the same
00:16:31.040exact thing. But we just have a bigger reach now, unfortunately, with the social media. But it is
00:16:37.220a problem because we've just put our sanity aside and are just believing any nonsense. And you
00:16:44.800can't break these people of their addiction to hating republicans and politicians what do we do
00:16:54.160owen didn't you address this like last week weren't you trying to talk about how impossible it is
00:16:59.840yeah and i this is why i love scott he would calm me down on all of it by giving me strategies to
00:17:07.120look at it and think about it and i i it would seem so much more manageable the way he presented
00:17:12.800By the way, that's why if you present little, not just the whiteboard stuff that Scott did, but present the little pieces of video of his previous pods, it's a public service to have just culled through and find the gems and play them for us.
00:17:30.620I mean, we need more of that, number one.
00:17:35.380Number two, I used to listen to a podcast called You Are Not So Smart.
00:17:39.640and it was about it was kind of the first thing i was ever exposed to as it pertains to persuasion
00:17:45.600i at the time was several years ago i became obsessed with flat earthers i'm like how would i
00:17:51.340how would i deal with that person how do you how frustrating little did i know that the whole
00:17:56.700half the world would become effectively flat earthers in regards to many things covid and
00:18:01.900tds and all these things um and that podcast was making the case they talked about the backlash
00:18:08.400syndrome, which may or may not exist, where you can convince somebody on a narrow topic,
00:18:13.820but they'll backlash in other areas. Like you can convince someone that a measles vaccine may be a
00:18:18.880good idea, but then they'll double down on their anti-vax beliefs for everything else. So he made
00:18:25.960the case that the only option is to discuss people's worldview. Because if you really go
00:18:33.320at these things that are sort of organizing principles for how they see the world, including
00:18:37.820their social relationships it's really hard it's really hard and i i use a lot of what's called
00:18:44.340therapeutic wonderment just you don't you don't come at people that's when all the force fields
00:18:49.480go up you just use lots of wonderment like i wonder why i wonder is it is it possible i wonder
00:18:55.940what you're thinking of course you know the answer in your head but you just you just still
00:18:59.620ask questions that people can't help but expose things about themselves when you use that's why
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00:19:47.600but it but this is like an actual disorder don't you feel like this like i feel like
00:19:58.400the tds is like you look at oh someone like um sam harris you know so you're like i don't we
00:20:07.860always go to him as an example because you're like here's someone who seems like they're so
00:20:11.700smart and whatever but he can't see what what happened to him right in front of his face yeah
00:20:18.500Yeah, I mean, I have been reading extensively about mass psychosis, true believers, behavior of mobs.
00:20:31.020I started when social media came around, I started seeing the mob action and I kind of predicted it in my book on narcissism, which I wrote.
00:20:40.160god i don't know 12 14 years ago it it was kind of a follow-on to christopher lash and some of the
00:20:47.680other things that have been you know sort of predicting the narcissistic turn and this book
00:20:52.800was based on some research that i did with a friend of mine where we showed that yeah indeed
00:20:57.120particularly celebrities are terribly narcissistic and the narcissist and the celebrityness seeking
00:21:03.280celebrity was an attempt to heal the narcissistic injuries of childhood of course that doesn't work
00:21:09.040But we also showed that there's been a narcissistic turn everywhere.
00:21:12.220Like we are all much more narcissistic than we used to be.
00:21:15.740In 1850, it was debated whether narcissistic personality existed.
00:25:26.140Stop. They can't do it. The scariest things that these people say to me is, you got to meet people where they are. Are you kidding me? What are you talking about? Meet people where they are. You got to get them where they need to go immediately or they will die. Meet people where they are. It's like, oh, you have abdominal obstruction? Well, let me meet you where you are.
00:25:50.100This is nonsense. This is total nonsense. And it is captured the governmental agencies.0.96
00:26:00.800I've been hearing you talk about this situation, this crisis for years. You were the one that
00:26:07.000clued me in about the plague and everything else. I'm like, what are we doing? And you said,
00:26:10.580these people don't want to live inside. They're addicts. This is where they want to be. They
00:26:15.280can't even help where they want to be this is it um so i have a question so it's multi-part first
00:26:22.720um the way i see spencer is i keep saying 2015 donald trump it was just like he's just yeah i'm
00:26:29.360not a politician there's problems i know how to solve them i i'll put the people around me to do
00:26:34.400it um so my first question to you is if spencer asked you to help him head up how to fix this
00:26:43.200problem would you uh accept i would advise happily it's not that hard one of the biggest problems we
00:26:50.160have is is a deficiency in resources and beds because this is another thing i think people
00:26:55.200need to understand let me tell you a little story here um the the the speaking of derangements
00:27:03.120there's a derangement as it pertains to the history of the state medical hospitals in this
00:27:07.920country reagan did not end the state hospital system in this country the way it went down
00:27:17.040is you understand psychiatry was in the grips of psychoanalysis for 50 years we were the only
00:27:23.920country in the world that did that vienna the austria they did it for like five minutes and
00:27:28.080then they abandoned it this country trained medical doctors as psychoanalysts for 50 years
00:27:35.740And as such, the psychoanalysts started believing they knew the solutions to all society and all ills and all everything.
00:27:42.540And the first three heads, the National Institute of Mental Health, were psychoanalysts, two of which had never set foot in a state hospital or even a psychiatric hospital.
00:27:55.300And one had set foot in one summer, but really had no idea what he was looking at because he wasn't even a doctor.
00:28:01.920He was an entomologist, if I remember right.
00:28:03.540and so here were guys that had no understanding of chronic psychiatric illness who had never been
00:28:09.920in a psychiatric chronic psychiatric hospital setting they decided much in the line of this
00:28:16.060post post-structuralist which read about the post-structuralist and their impact on everything
00:28:21.660academic and political now they just the french from 75 years ago with the french today will have
00:28:28.400nothing to do with the philosophers from 75 years ago destroyed our academic system but
00:28:36.000look look at um what's her name that wrote that book sexual persona she talks about this a lot
00:28:44.640you can find her online talk about amen so michelle foucault took the position that psychiatric
00:28:50.900hospitals cause mental illness and these psychoanalysts grabbed onto that and decided
00:28:57.260their job needed to be to dismantle the state medical system which was a system that had built
00:29:02.060over 150 years was terrible in some states but was excellent in others and the reason the states had
00:29:10.060to do it is because the constitution doesn't provide any provision where the the federal
00:29:14.460government should have anything to do with mental health services particularly back in the day
00:29:19.580so they they found a sympathetic ear in a new senator who had a sister with chronic psychiatric
00:29:26.940illness his name was john kennedy and when he became president they really went at him
00:29:33.980rosemary had had a frontal lobotomy it destroyed her life it was joe's pushing doctors to do it
00:29:41.020that got it done uh remember lobotomy was much like it was it was psychosurgeries i can tell
00:29:47.740you a whole story about how that stuff gets carried out whether it's the opiate crisis or
00:29:51.500covid or vaccines or psychosurgeries there's always an evangelical physician who gets a hold
00:29:58.700of the regulatory system and the medical societies and professional societies and then the reimbursement
00:30:03.420systems and on it goes think deborah burks that that was a good example of that uh i i keep
00:30:11.180digressing because these are such big stories for me so when he becomes president they they throw
00:30:15.900down in front of him the community mental health act that act was to dismantle the state health
00:30:22.060care system and replace it with community mental health centers whose stated goal was preventing
00:30:29.260mental illness not treating mental illness preventing which is something we don't know
00:30:33.740how to do to this day the last signature he put uh before his fateful trip to dallas was for the
00:30:40.780the Community Mental Health Act, which set the state hospitals on the path to destruction, okay?
00:30:48.000The community mental health centers, which replaced it, were abject failures. And in the
00:30:52.920meantime, hundreds of thousands of patients were disgorged from these state hospitals with no plan
00:31:00.540for them. They went to the streets, the prisons, and the nursing homes. The community mental health
00:31:08.080centers did nothing for them they were completely unable to manage this because they were busy doing
00:31:12.460prevention which they couldn't do and reagan ended the funding to the abject failure of the community
00:31:19.300mental health system which was not the state hospital system sounds a lot like the setup of
00:31:24.220the joker movie right exactly exactly so that's that story i think the person you were looking
00:31:31.600for for a sexual persona is camille paglia camille paglia go listen to camille paglia and some of her
00:31:36.840talk let's do her talk to jordan peterson the two of them together it's magical oh nice okay good
00:31:42.460so do we need to bring back uh mental institutions oh absolutely we need we are that's what that was
00:31:49.020sort of what prompted me to tell you this long story is we have a deficiency in the capacity to
00:31:54.280manage these cases and we have to we have to create acute settings chronic settings residential
00:32:00.280settings i know rfk has been flirting with this for a long time i've talked to him about it many
00:32:06.360times he wants to set up these sort of work farms for the next one to two years of rehabilitation
00:32:12.600after people are stabilized he doesn't quite get how far gone we are and what's going to be required
00:32:18.600to get people in condition where they can tolerate going to the work work camps that he imagines do
00:32:24.200you think people would go to those facilities if they were available sure i mean you got you have
00:32:30.520to you have to motivate back to the motivational thing addiction is a usurpation of the brain's
00:32:37.080motivational system it survival everything else takes a second goes down in orders of importance
00:32:44.280relative to the use impulse there the addict is not aware of this they have something called
00:32:50.440anisognosia anisognosia is literally a biological block of insight they don't see what's happening
00:32:57.240to them you have to it's the same thing that dementia patients get it's the same skin schizophrenics
00:33:02.520get same thing that stroke patients get you have to take them and you have to motivate them well
00:33:07.560what motivates addicts well one thing is to go hey you can't stay here you have to come over here
00:33:12.280that's all you have to do and they'll follow you go i got a nice place for you sorry you cannot
00:33:17.000stay here let's go you have to motivate them to do something or they will die the usual motivations
00:33:23.320are loss loss of a child you know a loss of their health they believe they're going to die which
00:33:28.980if they're lucky enough to get through that inevitably happens uh loss of freedom that's
00:33:34.900a very big motivator for people and we don't do that anymore and and a a period of time where they
00:33:41.260at least clear sufficiently the anosognosia settles down and they can start to see what's
00:33:46.260happening to them and we can start to work on their motivation to get better but it takes work
00:33:50.960to do that it's very time consuming it's very slow and you have to have a unified front of
00:33:57.440people saying you can't do that you can't keep doing drugs it's i'm sorry you can't steal sorry
00:34:03.460you can't slide down if you're sick enough you want to lie down on the sidewalk and stay there
00:34:08.720no no we gotta we gotta help you we'll take you on if you don't do that for a dementia patient
00:34:14.020let's say a dementia patient is running around in the streets you're guilty of patient abuse
00:34:19.480if you take a schizophrenic with the same symptom complex running around the streets and you take
00:34:23.940them by the hand and say come with me you've now just kidnapped someone so california has got to
00:34:29.060change its laws so we can do that's the other thing well i mean that was my concern is as i
00:34:33.160understand it in many states if not all of them there's pretty strict limits about involuntarily
00:34:38.380committing someone to an institution that you can do it maybe for 24 hours or 72 hours i'm not
00:34:44.020talking about that i i we we do need to we in order i'm talking about well two things i'm talking
00:34:49.620about motivating people to to get better to be much nicer environments than they're staying in0.90
00:34:55.540and to expand the category of gravely disabled which we've actually done in california i was0.97
00:35:03.280advocating that like eight years ago and they actually did it it's unfortunately not being
00:35:07.180applied properly yet but you have to say you know say if you're so ill you don't know where you are
00:35:12.640You can't, we don't know what's going on.
00:35:14.820You're lying on the street with an open wound and you don't want help.
00:42:59.980I thought, you know, oh, boy, I'm going to say something pretty controversial here, which is that if you something like if you separate him from Hillary, you really see how awful Hillary is relative to him.