Drew Monson Opens Up About His Struggles With Addiction
Click to viewSummary (TW: drug abuse, alcoholism):- Has a long history of mental illness and addiction in his family but never expected it to happen to him, it snuck up on him
- Once he went to LA, ended up around a lot of other youtubers who were way older than him and introduced him to sleeping pills
- Sleeping pills led to a dependency on weed and other prescription pills like ADHD meds and Benzos
- Mentions a doctor who handed him ADHD medication way too easily (asked him one question ("Do you make piles of stuff?") and handed him the meds just from that.
- Eventually, in 2017, he had a psychotic episode from the drugs that led him to entering rehab.
- Apologizes for being part of the problem that makes those drugs so inaccessible for people who really need them, but all drugs were prescribed to him by his doctors (who he thinks prescribed them to HIM far too easily)
- Has been sober for 6 months and felt embarrassed to open up about any of this until now but wants to be honest with people about his prolonged absences from social media + possibly help others who have similar struggles.
Source: YouTube
If you don't know who he is, he became pretty famous back in the 2010s as a member of Shane Dawson's friend group (when Shane was a grown man and Drew was 12 a teenager). From various things he has said (and not said), it is rumored that his friendship with Shane ended on bad terms. Drew has built up a pretty loyal fanbase of his own since cutting ties with Shane.
Mods, I edited this to correct some ages mentioned in the post, hope that's okay!