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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction and Recovery

Dopey 331: Erin Lee Carr, TRAUMA, Britney vs. Spears, Alcohol, Cocaine, David Carr, Workaholic, Recovery

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

🗓️ 20 November 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

This week on Dopey! At long last, we are joined by the prolific documentary film maker and brilliant memoirist, Erin Lee Carr. She walks us through her life as a child of two serious addicts and her experience as a fantastic alcoholic in her own right. We talk about her father, renowned author and NY Times journalist, David Carr and the hard lessons he taught Erin. We discuss her new smash Netflix Documentary Britney vs. Spears, and the balance between workaholism and ambition and the importance of having a crack sober support network to pace her recovery. PLUS a nitrous fueled voicemail, King Baby and much more on this fresh episode of Dopey. Get it while it’s hot! ***This episode was sponsored by Zencastre! So, if you want to make a podcast without all the hassle we fumbled our way through, check out zencastr.com and be sure to enter the code dopeypodcast (no spaces) or access the link in the notes for a 30% discount on your subscription. More On 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

Hey hey hey hey it's time for Jo.

0:12.9

And I want a single song for you.

0:17.1

And Chris can show you a thing or two.

0:22.9

You have some fun now with me and all the gang.

0:27.3

Learn it from each other while we do our thing.

0:32.0

No no no no go have a good time.

0:38.1

This episode of Dopey is brought to you by Auro Recovery,

0:43.2

formerly Aloe Recovery.

0:45.8

Created by our friend Bob Forest and his friends Evan Jarrett

0:49.7

and Bob, their mission to create a treatment that

0:53.0

treats alcoholics and drug addicts with compassion and

0:56.3

connection rather than control.

0:58.5

Their staff has multiple decades of experience in treating

1:03.2

co-occurring mental illness as well as drug addiction

1:06.1

and alcoholism.

1:07.6

They can even handle the dread SMI.

1:11.3

Kicking at Auro is supposed to be as comfortable as kicking

1:15.8

can be, which is critical when you're kicking anything.

1:18.8

Of course heroin or alcohol or meth or whatever.

1:21.6

And there are amenities.

1:22.6

I hear are incredible.

1:24.1

Sound bath meditation, equine therapy, surfing.

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