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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dopey 260: Lesley Arfin and the Dopey Ecstacy, Heroin, Vice, Cocaine, Recovery

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

Dave & Chris

Comedy, Mental Health, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2020

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

This week on Dopey! Prolific artist, writer and producer, Lesley Arfin calls in to tell her sordid Dopey tale. Lesley takes us back to her first using days on Long Island as a young teen in the hardcore scene, mixing ecstacy, crystal meth and ketamine.  She put a match to gasoline fell into the junky scene and made her spot at  Vice magazine.  She then got clean, enjoyed some Ween and now she writes for the small screen.  *She also got married and has a kid. Plus a crazy Dopey email! On a coke selling, dust off huffing, scooter riding, Girls writing, good timing, wind chiming and description rhyming new episode of Dopey! More about Dopey: Dopey Podcast is the world’s greatest podcast on drugs, addiction and dumb shit. Chris and I were two IV heroin addicts who loved to talk about all the coke we smoked, snorted and shot, all the pills we ate, smoked, all the weed we smoked and ate, all the booze we consumed and all the consequences we suffered. After making the show for 2 and a half years, Chris tragically relapsed and died from a fentanyl overdose. Dopey continued on, at first to mourn the horrible loss of Chris, but then to continue our mission - which was at its core, to keep addicts and alcoholics company. Whether to laugh at our time in rehab, or cry at the worst missteps we made, Dopey tells the truth about drugs, addiction and recovery. We continually mine the universe for stories rife with debauchery and highlight serious drug taking and alcoholism. We also examine different paths toward addiction recovery. We shine a light on harm reduction and medication assisted treatment. We talk with celebrities and nobodies and stockpile stories to be the greatest one stop shop podcast on all things drugs, addiction, recovery and comedy!

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0:00.0

Okay

0:04.8

I need a fix cuz I'm going down

0:09.0

Back to the bits that I left up town. I need a fix cuz I'm going down

0:18.8

For the superior jump the gun

0:23.0

For the superior jump the gun

0:25.3

You're going oh no no

0:35.3

You're going oh no yes

0:44.3

I need a fix cuz I'm going down

0:49.3

Back to the bits that I left up town

0:52.3

I need a fix cuz I'm going down

0:57.3

This episode of Dopey is brought to you by our friends at Allo Recovery

1:02.3

located in sunny Southern California in Malibu and Silver Lake

1:06.3

Allo was created by our friend Bob Forest and his friends Evan, Jared and Bob

1:12.3

It was created as a place where addicts can be treated with compassion and connection rather than control

1:19.3

They have many many many decades of experience and treating addiction including co-occurring mental health disorders

1:27.3

Even SMI they have amenities you wouldn't believe sound bath meditation the uber spiritual sweat lodge

1:35.3

Equine therapy surfing they make sure that whatever you are kicking that you're detoxing as comfortably as possible

1:43.3

Whether it's benzos alcohol heroin or coke if I was

1:48.5

Fucked and I was willing to go to sunny Southern California to get some help

1:52.3

I would totally go to Allo

1:54.7

This episode of Dopey is also brought to you by our friends at C-A-S-L

1:59.3

Which of course stands for clean and sober love the dating app for people who choose a sober way of life

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