Dopey 422: Dr. Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation, Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence and The Tragic Death of Hottwheels,, Trauma, Sex, Cravings, Spirituality

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction and Recovery

Dave & Chris

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

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2023

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

This week on Dopey. Dopey Nation Legend and old time friend and contributor to the show, Brian 'HottWheels' Connolly tragically dies. It all happened the same day we hit 10 million downloads and the day before we acknowledge the five year anniversary of Chris's horrific death. If that wasn't enough we also were featured in SPIN magazine the same day. Is it odd or is it Todd? We are also joined by brilliant New York Times best seller, Anna Lembke is an American psychiatrist who is Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University. Her book Dopamine Nation has been flying off the shelves and is an incredibly accesable look at addiction and recovery. PLUS emails, voicemails and the return of my dad! Here is the link to Matt Thompson's heart wrenching SPIN piece: https://www.spin.com/2023/07/dopey-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-the-worlds-greatest-podcast/ 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	You're not in a dopey show, if you're really high or super low, if you eat a friend, you don't wear to go, you're not in a dopey show.
0:30.0	You're a junky captain, a river, butter, battery, things that are right, it's worth just about what's given up.
0:45.0	You're not in a dopey show.
0:58.0	You can listen to details, get some from West Virginia to see, miss her friends when they hear no more.
1:07.0	We'll see it over on the other shore.
1:22.0	From open shooters and smoking cracks are recovery, and long road backwards show that we're in the free core map.
1:32.0	Thanks for listening, come on back.
1:46.0	You're not only in a dopey show, if you're really high or super low, eat a friend, you don't wear to go, you're not in a dopey show.
2:12.0	This episode of dopey is brought to you by our good friends at Auro Recovery, located in sunny Southern California, created by our old friend Bob Forest, and his friends Evan, Jared, and Bob.
2:26.0	Auro is an amazing place that uses connection and compassion rather than control in treating alcoholism and drug addiction.
2:35.0	Their staff has many decades of experience in treating co-occurring mental health disorders, including SMI.
2:43.0	We have friends that have been there, everybody that I know that has been there only says great things about Auro.
2:49.0	They have amenities you wouldn't believe, sound bath, meditation, surfing, equine therapy, and of course the potentially spiritually transformative sweat lodge.
3:01.0	The detox is as comfortable as a detox can be.
3:06.0	If you're fucked and you're willing to go to sunny Southern California, check them out at AuroRecovery.com, read the reviews, listen to people who have been there, and if you need help, go to Auro.
3:17.0	This episode of dopey is also brought to you by sober buddy.
3:21.0	Sober buddy is an app. It's a social media platform, but it is so much more. It's a community.
3:28.0	We do zooms every week. I'm part of the sober buddy community. There's a lot of dope in it.
3:33.0	On Wednesday morning, we have a meeting at 9 a.m., it is always incredibly helpful.
3:38.0	This week we talked about recovery burnout and loss.
3:42.0	We talk about relapse. We talk about prevention. We talk about gratitude.
3:48.0	We talk about things that addicts need to talk about and alcoholics need to talk about in order to get well.
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