REN REACTS TO DOPING IN ESPORTS

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:02]Let's watch this. I'm interested. I'm actually really interested. In 2024, an Australian university ran human trials to see the effect of caffeine in its influence on the average player's aim.

[00:00:12]B.

[00:00:13]>> Oo, I know caffeine is a really strong stimulant. I'm willing to bet reaction times and the aim performance were significantly higher for the caffeine.

[00:00:22]And I'm willing to bet that for even stronger drugs, they're even better. And I'm saying I'm willing to bet, but I I have some knowledge about this. You know, when pro teams have like these like sport advisors, I heard from Apex, the team that JL used to play in where he played his first major, that they advised him to or not him specifically, but but they they advised our players to drink caffeine within half an hour of the game start and then within the first 50 minutes of having caffeine, his performance would peak. Ooh, aim training software to complete over the course of three separate days. Upon arrival at the testing facility, players were given one of three pills which were administered at random. One pill acted like a placebo containing no caffeine.

[00:01:09]The second contained 1 millig of caffeine per 1 kg.

[00:01:13]>> I think placeos are really interesting though per 1 kg. In their paper they referred to >> if you give people placeos controlled calf one in cal participants scoredly better on average after they place are insanely frustrating. Static clicking scenario saw a 2.5% increase in score with calf 1 while calf 3 gave them a 2.7% increase.

[00:01:34]Tracking was even more significant. Calf 2 saw a 3.4% increase in accuracy and calf 3 made users 5.9% more accurate.

[00:01:41]And to top it all off, reaction times were 3.8% faster when the user was given calf 1. and 6.1% faster when given calf 3. However, just because you're shooting better doesn't necessarily mean you're playing better Counterstrike or whatever game it is that you're playing. In fact, depending on who you ask, myself included, shooting is only 40% of what makes up a great Counter-Strike player.

[00:02:02]Game sense, League of Legends, and mid-round decisions can often dictate how good a player actually is. So, does caffeine influence this? Well, in 2015, 20 special forces personnel were given, >> oh, we watched this a little bit before and then we stop watching. 3 days to test this. But before this part, let's talk about the sponsor of today's video.

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[00:02:38]Check them out with the link in description. In 2015, 20 special forces personnel from New Zealand were given either four 200 mgram caffeine pills during the late evening and early morning or four placebo pills. They were given a multitude of different tests to include a psycho monitor or a PBT, field vigilance, and logical reasoning.

[00:02:55]Similar to the experiment in Australia, the results concluded that in all categories, personnel that received the caffeine pills scored higher than their controlled variable of no caffeine pills. And specifically during logical reasoning, personnel averaged a 0.6 second faster response time. The caveat to this experiment >> that is interesting. Logical reasoning.

[00:03:13]So like literally thinking about like a task, right? Logical reasoning being faster is really interesting cuz like you kind of think like reaction time.

[00:03:23]Sure. Like the ability to like lock in and focus on something. Sure. But even thinking speeds up. Like everything speeds up. That that's interesting. I think is that the special forces personnel were mildly sleepd deprived.

[00:03:34]They were only provided 4 hours of sleep which took place in the afternoon. So really what this experiment shows is that a caffeinated brain operates better than a sleep-d deprived brain. However, with all that said, there is reason to believe that caffeine can potentially increase your performance in tasks such as video games. There are health concerns that go along with that though.

[00:03:50]Overconumption of caffeine can lead to very dangerous things which I'm sure most you have already experienced. But it's not entirely uncommon to feel jitters, extreme anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, and a faster heart rate. And at extreme doses, there have been reports of seizures, and even death.

[00:04:04]Highly caffeinated products like caffeine pills have contributed to at least two deaths in the United States alone. With all that in mind, the FDA >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, we covered this.

[00:04:11]We covered this. I think we stopped around here. Caffeine pills have contributed at least two deaths in the US, which is 10 deaths less than water.

[00:04:20]Water poisoning has claimed 12 deaths in the US.

[00:04:24]>> 400 milligrams daily is, and I quote, not generally associated with negative effects. This, of course, is dependent person.

[00:04:31]>> What the [ __ ] A lot of people don't know this but water poisoning is a very real thing right uh drinking excessive water in short time which revols the kidneys and dilutes the blood sodium so um we for a wei death. So there was this like very famous American thing when the Nintendo Wii came out. Jennifer Strange died from water intoxication. Hold your Wii for a Wii. where the participants had to drink 250 ml bottles every 10 to 15 minutes without urinating and in the end she had had 5 to 9 lit liters of water which caused her to go into water intoxication and died [ __ ] died bro specifically have a predisposed sensitivity to caffeine and anything >> who allows that kind of contest people think that water is harmless pretty bad >> anything in excess >> moving away from caffeine I want to talk about a drug that over 1.3 billion people consume globally that of course is nicotine In 2011, a trial was done with 40 smokers. I know so many people using snooze and like [ __ ] cigarettes and [ __ ] like that. I'm pretty sure nicotine will always be negative on your performance. I remember thinking this back when I was younger when I had like homies that would just like they would like cereal snooze while playing and I would be so convinced that like this just makes them play worse surely because first of all they need it.

[00:05:54]They're getting antsy if they don't have one. And nicotine generally lowers your performance. I believe >> they were given either a placebo I never actually looked it up 7 mig nicotine patch. This trial was done over 2 days.

[00:06:05]So each participant was tested both on the placebo and the nicotine patch. The results were largely inconclusive.

[00:06:11]>> Yeah. Nicotin last. It calms you down.

[00:06:13]Yeah. But being calm isn't necessarily bad. But if it also slows you down, right? If it slows your cognitive reasoning, then it could be interesting.

[00:06:21]But but I don't know. I don't know. This is just like my my theory. I don't know the correct >> nature of how nicotine works. The test took over 90 minutes to complete at which time the effects of nicotine have mostly worn off. But something the test did discover that were given patch were worse at orientating themselves. A test done to measure how well spatial cues influence the nicotine patch were worse at orientating themselves. A test done to measure how well spatial cues influence your decision-m determined that those under the influence of nicotine scored 8 milliseconds slower to stimuli when markers assisted in decision-m. All of that to say, audio and visual cues like opponents throwing utility, firing their weapon, or just making noise in general will likely serve as less of a benefit to you if you consume nicotine as a traditional non-nicotine consumer. I did a bit more research on a few other studies, but the vast majority ran their experiments on people that already consume nicotine regularly. There is some evidence that of them ran their experiments on people that already consume nicotine, but the vast majority of them ran their experiments on people that already consume nicotine regularly. There is some evidence that suggests that if you consume nicotine as someone who traditionally does consume nicotine, you'll perform better at a few cognitive tasks like decision-making and vigilance. That is, of course, if you have recently >> Okay, 8 millconds slower. Sure. But 8 milliseconds in Counterstrike, that is if both of you are [ __ ] OP in a duel, one of you has 150 millisecond reaction time and the other one has 158. That's the difference in a round, right? And if you are making yourself 8 milliseconds slower in decision making in in cognitive observance in in all of these things across all rounds of a game, you're making yourself 8 milliseconds slower. You are objectively a worse player than you could be, right? We agree on this, right? It's not a big number, but like like you're playing a game of inches and milliseconds. Of course, the milliseconds matter, right?

[00:08:12]That's assuming a but bro like we're talking in a controlled competitive environment like like don't be this guy.

[00:08:19]Don't be this [ __ ] devil's advocate guy where you're like okay but hey maybe there are other fact like like [ __ ] you.

[00:08:23]We're talking strictly about someone who's on nicotine and someone who isn't on nicotine. We're not talking about the [ __ ] weather conditions in your country [ __ ] You better than how your brain reacts when you're nicotine deprived. From what I found and what I already know about the dangers and addictive qualities of nicotine, it's easy to say that if you don't usually consume nicotine, then you should certainly stay away from only like, bro, you guys are so [ __ ] stupid sometimes, bro. Like, like like what does this even mean, Chad? Do we agree that 8 milliseconds compared to 0 milliseconds is a longer time? Do we agree on this simple fact?

[00:08:57]Is does 8 milliseconds take longer than 0 milliseconds? Yes, we we can agree on this. Wow, that was difficult to get to.

[00:09:05]It's a bigger number than zero. Yeah.

[00:09:08]Yeah. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Okay, perfect.

[00:09:11]For two reasons. If you do decide to start smoking, the addictive qualities of nicotine will likely shackle you to it for the rest of your existence. And two, there is no real evidence to support the claim that nicotine itself is good for you. Nicotine is a psychoactive drug that is commonly compared to heroin and cocaine for its addictive qualities. Along with that, regardless if smoke is involved or not, there are real short-term effects that nicotine can have on your body, including increased heart rate and blood pressure. And winning at video games like Counter-Strike or any other game for that matter is not worth picking up a lifelong addiction. Let's change gears and talk about a drug that without a shred of a doubt negatively impacts your ability to play any competitive game in that this agree 100%.

[00:09:53]The few times I've played CS drunk, I become a [ __ ] monster because my already high confidence gets even higher and I just swing everything like a [ __ ] idiot. And oh my god, does that [ __ ] work well for me when I played Counterstrike. Holy [ __ ] I become an absolute aim god, bro. That is alcohol.

[00:10:22]With that being said, if I was an actual pro player, I wouldn't exactly pull up to stage with six beers deep. You know, I wouldn't I wouldn't be doing that.

[00:10:29]Like all segments of this video, I'm pulling a peer-reviewed study. This time, we'll go back a little bit further than usual. This is because most studies done recently are usually testing driving. But I have this one frag movie privated on my on my YouTube where in the frag movie I was I I have like six clips of me playing drunk and I'm just hitting the nastiest shots like imaginable. Uh, and it was me coming home and I was playing with viewers on Discord after a night out and I was [ __ ] hammered. I was absolutely [ __ ] hammered and I was just hitting everything. Can we see it? Was it Rage of Dust? I'm so autistic with this [ __ ] I think it was the Rage of Dust track.

[00:11:07]Maybe if this has a USB one tap on Mirage Bite that is demo filed. Yeah, it's it's literally the first clip. I'm so [ __ ] autistic. It's unbelievable.

[00:11:19]T reminder, I made 400 frag movies and I can remember what clip is where.

[00:11:28]Yeah. Do you guys want to know how this is a demo file? It's because there's no uh netgraph. The netgraph is turned off when I record this to not show demo file.

[00:11:42]That's me drunk.

[00:11:47]I'm shitfaced here, by the way.

[00:11:59]And in the chorus, there's another clip of me stomping Vertigo B site with Glock. It's the same evening.

[00:12:13]I believe it comes now.

[00:12:15]Hang on, hold.

[00:12:24]Yeah, this was the same evening. I'm shitfaced here.

[00:12:31]This is the same evening.

[00:12:40]This is the clip.

[00:12:49]Yeah, it's just uh Yeah. No, I was pissed drunk. Like I remember waking up the other morning and and people were like, "Bro, ruined with wee music." Wee music and it's just Japanese music, bro. People First time chatter chat. Do we like people in this stream that don't like let people enjoy things? Do we do we do we like people like this? No. I mean, this guy's going to fi fail the vibe check at some point, so it's not a big deal. It kind of already did.

[00:13:18]>> Ability. This one, however, just measured raw reaction to a very simple test. In 1987, the University of Manchester gathered four participants who volunteered to complete a human trial to see the effects of alcohol.

[00:13:30]There was a control test where participants were given a placebo and another where they were given actual alcohol. Based on the participants weight, they changed how much they were given. all simply to achieve a slightly above legal limit of blood alcohol percentage. The test they were given was simple. You have four buttons, A, B, C, and D. Whichever appeared on the screen in front of you, you press the corresponding button. Pretty straightforward. And so were the results. No alcohol yielded an average reaction time of 522 milliseconds, while with alcohol showed 562 milliseconds, 40 milliseconds slower on average. Not only that, but the average accuracy of selection went down by 1% when participants were intoxicated. Along with that, testers realized that while the participant was intoxicated, they tended to make repeat mistakes. And while they weren't intoxicated, there were no repeat mistakes. And keep in mind, this is only after approximately two drinks. This issue only compounds when more alcohol is introduced. It comes as no surprise that alcohol can only hurt your ability to compete in competitive environment. So, with that out of the way, let's move on to something a little more interesting, marijuana. During the fall of 2016 at the John Hopkins School of Medicine, four different professors ran a human trial to measure the cognitive line tetrahydroanabonol or THC on the brain as well as exploring the differences between professional systems. They gathered 17 healthy volunteers that had no cannabis use in the prior month and then ran three different tests. The first was a digital sim which examined processing speed as well as a divided attention task which focused on divided attention and paste auditory serial edition and this measured a few things like working memory, processing speed and reaction time. So for the focus of the video, we'll be specifically looking at the results from the processing speed test as well as the PAT which tests working memory and reaction time. To no one's surprise, participants that consumed smoked or vaporized THC reacted 80 to 130 milliseconds slower than their baseline while consuming a placebo.

[00:15:21]Chad, and this this is all of NA, by the way, this is all of NA. Can I say something random about NA creators? I don't want to say any names, okay? I don't want to say any names, but when me and Dimma were in NA last year in Austin for a month, we were trying to set up some challenges with NA pros uh and NA personalities. And this was extremely difficult to do in EU, whether it's Olafmeister or JL or uh whoever, you set a time, they make time, it's okay, right? in NA more than once did we get the response it depends how high I am that day it wasn't possible to be like okay let's do this challenge at this time we lock it in now and then everyone gets ready it became a thing of it depends how much weed I've smoked and I can't lie I find that extremely strange to me that is extremely strange I cannot picture myself being at the mercy of anything so much that I can't plan my day. But this happened more than once in an when we were trying to plan challenges with with with people. That's pretty disrespectful too. I mean, if you care more about [ __ ] weed than having cool stream content or being in a video or whatever the [ __ ] then like fair enough. Like good for you. I guess I I I guess it's not that someone has to prioritize being in a video. It's not that someone has to care about what we're trying to make, right? But if you don't care, surely you just go, "No, thank you." Right? Surely you just go, "No, I'm good. I I don't really want to join this." I think being like, "Yeah, maybe if I'm not too high." It's extremely strange. I think that's on me.

[00:17:10]That's on me. I I I don't get people wanting to consume something like this over and over again. I I don't get it. I don't get drugs. Like, to give you guys an example, I'm so scared of addiction.

[00:17:21]like like my my big vice in life has always been candy and chocolate. It's it's I I can I can have 4,000 calories of chocolate in a sitting and I could go do it again next day if I want to. Uh I [ __ ] love candy, right? But it's because of this knowledge that I don't buy Nutella because if I have Nutella in the fridge, I feel like that's something I could genuinely get addicted to. So I just I I have never bought Nutella once in my life. Never. Not a single time have I bought it because I'm generally like thinking like like I I don't want to I I I don't need it. Nutella in the fridge. Okay. Well, there you go. No, you store Nutella in the fridge. The point is I don't store Nutella. That's the point. I've never bought it even once. So, I don't know where the [ __ ] you store it. If it's in the fridge or in the cupboard, I have no idea cuz I've never bought it. You know what I mean?

[00:18:07]But eating 4k calories and sitting is way worse than smoking weed every day.

[00:18:10]Yeah, obviously. Which is why I don't do it. Leopard. It's why I don't keep 4,000 calories in candy in my home. It's why I avoid doing it as much as possible. It's why I don't buy chocolate. It's because I know that I'm capable of doing this if if I had an an excessive amount of chocolate available. You smoke weed every day? I smoke weed never. I don't smoke weed at all. I have never bought weed. I've been given weed by friends, but I have I have never bought weed on my own. I've I've never bought a drug.

[00:18:42]So, the drugs I've tried in my lifetime allegedly is weed. Probably 10 years ago since I tried it last time and um hated it. I hate it every second. So, I' I've I've told this story a couple times.

[00:18:56]I've done it a couple times when I was like out drinking and every time it was awful and then my friends were like, "Just keep trying. You're going to have a good experience." And I was like, in my mind, I was playing this quote from a girl who used to be on this reality TV show called Big Brother. It's like a super old quote and she she was like priding herself on loving anal sex and the her quote was I hated anal the first 10 or so times I tried it but now I love it and I can't live without it and I remember seeing that quote I'm like bro you hated something 10 times and your mind went let's try again and that quote went in my head and I'm like bro someone just told me that okay you've tried weed like like five times now. Um, just try it again. You're going to love it. You know, you know what I mean? Like like like why? Why? Like I I don't like it. I've never liked it. I don't want to be addicted to this. I don't enjoy the feeling. I don't enjoy smoking. It's not good for me. What is the upside? So, I just never did it again. And then um a long time ago, I was at a I was at a party. I went to a afterparty and I was super drunk and someone offered me Molly and without thinking I just kind of took it and it was a great night and then I became horribly [ __ ] turbo depressed for 2 weeks because my serotonin receptors were [ __ ] fried and I was just like yeah I'm never doing that again. I I was sobbing while driving my own car 2 days after. And I have never cried without an extremely good reason before. And when when that happened, I was just like, "Yeah, I'm I'm never doing this [ __ ] again." Like like never. Two weeks is crazy. Yeah. No, some people have like a really bad crash, some people don't. I was one of those people with a really really bad crash. So for me, it's like, okay, I've I've tried two things. One is considered harmless by people, but I've I've lived with stoners. I know it's not. And the other one is considered a harder thing. And both of them I hated, so I just decided not to. But yeah, no, it's it's uh I I I can't recommend it to anyone. I just really can't recommend it to anyone. Also, I am an insomniac. I have access to prescription Xanax, volume, ambient if I wanted like these like really strong hallucinogenic sleep medications. And I've always, always, always refused to use them. I have never collected even one prescription because if I can choose between being a zombie with no sleep and being a zombie because of drugs, I'm going to take the no sleep any day of the week. So, this opinion I have on on like addiction and being scared of addiction, I'm extremely nutsy about. You know what I mean? Like like I take it very seriously. I also used to be a big party smoker. Like if I go out drinking, I'll have a cigarette or two every time, right? But the one time after like a night out where I was like, "Fuck, do I go buy cigarettes?" I realized, "Holy [ __ ] like my body's craving nicotine." And I just went cold turkey just [ __ ] I'm I'm not going to not going to get like a a sig for for a year. And I just didn't get a sig out on the town. So I was just like, "Okay, like like that's scary. Like I actually want a cigarette sober. That's that's too much. Like like I can't do this anymore." So, I just stopped. But, I mean, last weekend when I was out drinking, I had a cigarette, but I don't feel the addiction on that stuff. Um, because I do it so rarely. I'll get like a cigarette. I'll smoke like half a sig.

[00:22:28]Literally half a sig, and that that'll be more than enough nicotine for me, and I don't need anything more. How long were you smoking? Just when I was like out drinking. Are you fine being with people I smoked though? Yeah, I have no problem. Not weed. Uh, if someone smokes weed around me, I leave. I can't take the weed smell because I lived with a stoner for over a year and he would smoke for seven to $800 when a gram was $5 and he would smoke for 7 to 800 a month, bro. It was ridiculous how much he would smoke. And um and I got to see firsthand with this guy how weed turned him into a [ __ ] pillow. Like like that guy was just People like to tell you that weed is harmless. It is not. It is absolutely not. It slows you down something [ __ ] fierce. It makes you probably the like least active, the least entertained, the least curious, the most dumb you can possibly be. 100% from human to human.

[00:23:30]Yeah. But that's everything. That's everything. I think Simpsons, there's a Simpsons episode where Homer says the scariest thing with weed, the scariest thing with weed is that it makes you okay with being bored. And I genuinely think that is quite true. It makes you okay with sitting in a couch going and it's just not good. It's not good.

[00:23:52]It is I think I think if if you smoke weed recreationally and you think it has no impact on who you are, I think the people around you would would beg to differ genuinely. Genuinely >> and slower than their baseline while consuming a place. At least I've seen the difference.

[00:24:08]>> T subjects who consumed THC on average identified 10 less symbols during their test which ran for 90 seconds. This kind of experiment simply highlights the fact that playing after consuming THC in any capacity will almost certainly lower your performance.

[00:24:24]I don't understand why people smoke before gaming. In fact, I absolutely understand why a lot of people can find more enjoyment from video games in general after they smoke. Of course, this is entirely dependent on the person, but for the purpose of the video, smoking weed prior to gaming will definitely make you play worse. Will it increase your enjoyment level? Maybe.

[00:24:42]But again, that's not the purpose of the video. For our last drug we'll be looking at, we have Aderall, and for those of you that don't know, is essentially just a mixture of inetamine salts, which is usually prescribed.

[00:24:51]>> I have a friend that once played on Aderal, and he does not have ADHD, but he he got his hands on ADL, and we we played together. I have never seen someone more dialed in in my [ __ ] life, bro.

[00:25:03]Bro, you're using someone who smoked $800 worth of weed as a point of reference. No, you don't know anything about what I'm using as a point of reference. I used him as an example, but you don't know anything about my experiences. You're just defending it because you think you know anything. Um, but yeah, I um I was watching him play on Adel and dude, there's this moment when we played together. I remember this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life probably as long as I play CS. He runs out lower dark on those two. He kills a CT that swings short. He looks up mid. Kills a CT that's there.

[00:25:37]Runs into CT. Kills a CT that's there.

[00:25:39]And these are the three angles he checks. He didn't even check B slope. He didn't check doors when he ran out mid.

[00:25:46]He just looked top mid. He was like locked the [ __ ] in. And he clears three angles. All three angles. There's a CT.

[00:25:54]He murders them like like [ __ ] insta headshot. Like like way faster than I could react. And then after he kills the third guy in CT, he turns around still standing in the open and he just looks at T-spawn with an AK. He looks at T-spawn. And this was when you could hold up to T-spawn, right? And I remember in the moment when he turns to T-spawn and he looks at Tpawn. I remember thinking, "Oh my god, he's going to kill him." And I didn't even know if there was a CT in T-spawn. But I've just seen this guy run out mid, look at three angles, find three people, insta all of them, and then he just looks at T-spawn. So now I'm convinced a CT is about to swing T-spawn, and he's about to one tap him. I like I'm convinced this guy is Neo in the matrix right now. And then a CT never comes Espawn. He gets shot in the side of the head from B doors cuz the last B player was in B. And I remember thinking, "Holy [ __ ] I've never seen someone that dialed in." And I genuinely believed that there was going to be a guy there because of how he played. Like, it was [ __ ] nuts to see, bro. It was like actually [ __ ] crazy. Uh, yeah, it was anticlimactic, but I have I've never spectated someone and had like a stronger belief that they were going to like just hit hit an alltime great clip in front of me. Uh, I've been addicted to Coke and also smoked for 1.5 years non-stop. I'll tell you what, it's always better to be sober. Drugsmith has only been a runaway to quit weed has been the most depressing part of my life cuz it's been so hard to find joy again.

[00:27:22]Yeah, but you will, right? You will like like your receptors are probably fried as [ __ ] right now, but you're on the way there and you just need to find things that give you the same enjoyment and like fires your receptors like the drugs used to, right? So, it's it's not impossible. It's just it's going to be an uphill battle for you. But, you're on the way, which is which is good for you, bro. Like I'm [ __ ] proud of you.

[00:27:46]Addiction is a [ __ ] [ __ ] bro. I was addicted to a lot of things. I think weed was worse for me than harder stuff.

[00:27:51]I got green outs, which made me go insanely depressed. Drugs are dude, the guy I lived with, he like he he used to tell me he didn't sleep well unless he greened out. Drugs are just not good for anyone. And I would tell everyone to never use cuz Circle of Hell. Yeah, get out of it, bro. Just get out of it if you can. Like I think a big problem is how popularized and how cool uh drugs and cigarettes and wapes and weed has been made in popular media for a long time. I think that's a big problem. I think like when kids grow up seeing like their favorite rapper is just always high. They think it's cool. You know what I mean? They think it's cool. When when I grew up, everyone thought people using snooze was cool. And when I finally tried it one time, I accidentally swallowed one. Or not not even accidentally. I just swallowed one to avoid the teacher finding out I had a snooze and I got the stomach ache and I threw up for hours. Uh, and I never did snooze again. Now, now I can't even [ __ ] I I I can't tolerate the smell or sight of snooze. Uh, snooze are these like nicotine pouches that you put in your upper lip and they slow release nicotine into your mouth and that's how you like intake it. But they also like they discolor your teeth. They [ __ ] up your gums. Like like they it's bad for you in so many ways. Like so many [ __ ] ways it's bad for you. Um so just again like if you can avoid taking it just don't take it.

[00:29:12]>> To those with ADHD adjacent disorders.

[00:29:15]>> Now that this mixture of chemicals the pharmaceutical industry calls aderall works as it's intended. There'd be no other reason for licensed practitioners across the world to be prescribing patients with attention disorders this drug. Because there are so many instances of pros abusing this drug across every esport, not just Counter-Strike, we'll be taking a close.

[00:29:33]>> You know what the [ __ ] worst thing about snooze is, Chad? People that use it. If you're at a party, people will take out the snooze from the upper lip and they'll put it in a beer can. And then the snooze will lay in the little remains of the beer for 12 hours. And then the morning after when you pour it out into the sink, you pour out this sludge of nicotine and alcohol that is like [ __ ] fermented. And the smell is the worst thing in the [ __ ] world.

[00:30:00]Okay. And I'm going to tell a story right now that I might gag telling. So if if you're someone that's sensitive about the hearing nasty stuff, then then you might want to do the mute stream for like a moment. I have an ex-girlfriend.

[00:30:11]Me and her were at this house the day after a party and she's thirsty and she grabs an iced tea uh little like paper thing. So, there's like this like paper carton of iced tea and she opens it, she takes a sip and the moment she takes a sip, her friend, her face drops. This is the iced tea bottle that she has been putting snooze into for the last 12 hours because she's hung over and she couldn't stop her in time and she took a fat It's actually so bad picturing this.

[00:30:46]Like, if you've tasted this, you know how [ __ ] awful it is. She takes a big swig of snooze water and immediately throws up like that. Instantly throws up. Was it tobacco news? It was tobacco tobacco snooze. So yeah, it is it is like like I every time I tell this I gag. I I I genuinely can't I genuinely can't not gag telling this. It is dude if you have ever had the the disfortune of taking a swig of a beer can. I've drank my spitter too many times. That was a big race with quit. Yeah. Yo, if you've ever had the like it's even worse if you don't snooze cuz if you use snooze, I'm sure like like it's more okay cuz you're used to the flavor of it. But like if if you if you don't snooze if you don't use it. Yeah.

[00:31:35]>> Look at those. And also what impactful what these players said about the effect it had on them instead of just clinical trials. Arguably the most notable instance of Aderal being abused in professional esports was during 2015 with the Counter-Strike team Cloud9. On the 14th of July 2015, during an interview with Mohan Goends aka Launders, Cory Symphasis Fzen, a member of Cloud9 at the time, admitted, "I don't even care. We were all on aderall.

[00:31:59]I don't even give a it was pretty obvious if you listen to the comms." And here are the comms in question.

[00:32:05]>> Yeah, we should definitely keep buying.

[00:32:06]>> Car ded.

[00:32:10]>> We have banana control. Yo guys, I'm going to go in like a [ __ ] >> We should go We should go through their smoke.

[00:32:14]>> Yeah, we have really good timing.

[00:32:15]>> Could be oping the whole >> Okay. Are you guys going?

[00:32:18]>> Yeah, we're walking out my side. Smoke my left coming up right now. I'm smoking. I'm smoking.

[00:32:25]>> Dead center. Center.

[00:32:28]>> Close left. Close left.

[00:32:30]>> Two sight. Two sight fall.

[00:32:32]>> I'm stuck on something. That was you.

[00:32:35]>> I was stuck on you.

[00:32:35]>> I'm with sandbag.

[00:32:36]>> Later in the interview, he even went as far as saying everyone does aderall.

[00:32:39]This undoubtedly altered the stance of tournament organizers like ESL, the tournament Symphus was referring to, as well as EIC, the esports integrity commission. On the 1 of January 2016, EIC implemented anti-doping measures where they explicitly banned all ADHD stimulant medication. Of course, they also followed up with article 4 in their anti-doping code that allows players who are prescribed ADHD medication to still be able to compete and take their medication. Interestingly enough, in 2004, Wada or the World Anti-Doping Agency banned in fetamines from competition, which keep in mind, Wada, for the most part sets the industry standard for what is and what is not allowed in competition with traditional sports. But Friezen wasn't the only esports athlete to come clean about aderal abuse. In 2021, Kyler Garland, or Huke, a professional Call of Duty player who now plays for Optic Tech, admitted to using Aderall during his team's win in 2020 Call of Duty League Championship. In great detail, Kyler described the negative impact the substance had on his life, claiming that it changed how he viewed the game he loved, as well as a shift in personality, saying that he felt anger instead of joy while he played. He also went as far as claiming that there is a serious problem with the COD industry in regards to stimulant abuse. This, fortunately inspired a few other pros to come clean and admit their stimulant use. In Kyler's following season, he spent the entire time getting clean.

[00:33:52]Unfortunately, around the same time, he was dropped from his team just to later be picked up by another organization and then let go, largely due to rumors surrounding potential psychedelic abuse.

[00:34:02]Since this time, no drug screening requirement of any capacity has been implemented in the Call of Duty so many screening or >> [ __ ] up by drugs, bro.

[00:34:11]>> Nothing. And when the Washington Post did an article titled, >> "One of the saddest ones for me, if you guys follow MMA, Conor McGregor became like a huge cokehead." And he went from being this like extremely fascinating fighter who would predict how fights would end. And he would go out there and he would put fate into motion himself.

[00:34:33]And he was so eloquent on the mic. like he really brought that like show business thing into the UFC. Like he's probably the reason it's so big now, right? And he went from discipline and and [ __ ] hunger and pursuit to becoming double champion and then all of a sudden he became a partygoer and a druggie and lost his eloquence and he could no longer really speak in interviews. He he became a rambling [ __ ] and and all of a sudden he lost his ability to fight too. and now he's looked horrible in his last like four fights. It's crazy.

[00:35:10]>> Everyone is on it. They directly asked Epic Games in Activision Blizzard. They promptly provided >> I wouldn't say Jon Jones. I think Jon Jones is just a [ __ ] evil human being. Like at his [ __ ] core, I don't think the drugs do anything that he wouldn't do at least.

[00:35:23]>> I think Jon Jones is just like the [ __ ] definition of a [ __ ] scumbag.

[00:35:26]Jimmy Marino, former Gears of War pro said that Adam Slo said nobody talks about it because everyone's on it. League of Legends, Valerant, Fortnite, Call of Duty, Overwatch, and even Rocket League.

[00:35:40]>> Oh, there are some kids on cocaine in Fortnite, bro. Let me tell you, >> Counter-Strike is the only esport that tests for performance-enhancing drugs like Adderall. And since their implementation of random drug testing, they have had zero positive results.

[00:35:53]It's clear that esports as an industry has a lot of growing to do in this category. Young adults and even teenagers are being exposed to a sport where the status quo is to take unprescribed inetamines to gain an advantage. All while those in charge of their respective protein stand idly by while countless players like Kyler undergo lifealtering experiences with these powerful substances that will likely have lifelong effects. But to answer the question, how does aderall affect the way you play? Well, you can expect to feel restless, have trouble sleeping, decreased appetite, faster heart rate, anxiety, irritability, paranoia, and even hallucinations along with a whole slew of other potential side effects that are likely to arise for someone who isn't prescribed this medication for health reasons and isn't under the direct supervision of a licensed practitioner. But does it make you play better? Who knows? All we do know is that teenagers and young adults across every video game, not only Counter-Strike, are willing to try and do anything they can to get a competitive advantage. That's why it's the industry's responsibility to enforce these drug policies until there is definitive proof. Until then, the same will continue for guys like Kyler. And if you're looking for some kind of edge in your respective video game, just drink coffee type [ __ ] Todd, if you aren't the person making yourself truly great at something, if it's not your skill and your discipline and your effort, if it's if it's all enhanced by something like like drugs or whatever, is it real? Is it then still real? I don't feel like it is. I don't feel like it is, dude. Double your video. Go give it a like or or drop a comment or whatever the [ __ ] Good video. Bang.