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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction and Recovery

Dopey 323: Backstreet‘s Back! AJ McClean, Cocaine, Booze, Alan, heroin, Recovery, Covid

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

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

This week on Dopey! We are joined by pop royalty! AJ McClean of the Backstreet Boys calls into the show to tell his own story of debauchery turned recovery! We learn of access to excess and much more in his triumphant journey! PLUS the return of my dad! And he has a really cool new idea! ALSO! ERIN KHAR returns as promise to kick the Dopey around, answer some fucked up questions and give some helpful advice! All this week on an all 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!

Transcript

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les

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This episode of Dopey is brought to you by our friends

0:33.2

at Oro Recovery, located in sunny Southern California,

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in Malibu and Silver Lake,

0:40.2

somewhere in Western Los Angeles, Oro was created

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by our good friend Bob Forest and his good friends,

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Evan Jared and Bob, to create a place

0:50.1

that treats alcoholism and addiction

0:52.5

with compassion and connection rather than control.

0:56.0

They have many, many decades of experience

0:58.8

in treating co-occurring mental health disorders

1:01.7

including severe mental illness.

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They make sure your stay is a productive stay.

1:07.4

They are not a 12 step base program at Oro.

1:11.2

They also have amenities you wouldn't believe.

1:13.5

The sound bath meditation, surfing, equine therapy,

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and of course the potentially spiritually transformative

1:20.8

sweat lodge.

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If you're fucked and you're willing

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to go to sunny Southern California,

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I highly suggest going to Oro.

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This episode of Dopey is brought to you

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