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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction and Recovery

Dopey 268: Patty Schemel, Hole, Heroin, Crack, Recovery, Kurt & Courtney, street hustling, trauma, detox

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction and Recovery

Dave & Chris

Comedy, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2020

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

This week on Dopey! Hard hitting drummer of Hole, author, and one of the Dopeyest women ever to come on our show, the great Patty Schemel! Listen to Patty’s incredible rise to glory with Hole and hear her cataclysmic fall into some of the worst addiction stories we’ve ever heard on Dopey. In the end Patty makes an incredible comeback and saves her life by finding happiness in her recovery, it is a truly remarkable story. PLUS killer Dopey voicemail’s with research chemicals, killer Dopey emails with crack dealing and much much more. On a hard hitting, swiss cheese shooting, arctic drug smuggling, feline prozac taking 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

And the sky was made of emipists

0:07.0

And all the stars were just like little fish

0:13.0

You should learn when to go

0:18.0

You should learn how to think those

0:24.0

My eyes are dead

0:30.0

My mind is for real

0:38.0

My life is dead

0:41.0

My mind is forever

0:46.0

What day one?

0:49.0

Never wanted again

0:52.0

Never wanted again

0:58.0

Go on take everything

1:02.0

I want you to

1:10.0

Take everything I want you to

1:16.0

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

1:21.0

It's located in sunny Southern California in Malibu and Silver Lake

1:26.0

And it was created by our great friend Bob Forest and his chums Evan Jared and Bob

1:32.0

And they wanted to create a place where addicts are treated with compassion and connection rather than control

1:39.0

They have decades and decades of experience treating addiction

1:44.0

Especially patients with co-occurring mental health disorders

1:48.0

Including severe mental illness

1:51.0

They have amenities you wouldn't believe

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