Dopey Total Replay: Dopey OG Cums Blood PLUS Chris intentionally flips out in the psych ward to receive an injection of Ativan and Haldol. PLUS Bob Forrest and Dr. Drew

David Manheim (00:17.614) Welcome to another episode of Dopey, the podcast on drugs, addiction and dumb shit. And Monday we engage in the Dopey total replay show. And today's episode is Dopey episode seven, a classic Dopey episode. Chris used to edit all the shows and name all the shows and write descriptions for all the shows. So Dopey episode seven was called Dopey seven and no space between Dopey and seven, which was an interesting choice of Chris's. Bob Forrest, Dr. Drew, Psych Ward, Anti-Psychosis, Hal Dahl, Detox, Rehab, Recovery, Dope, Crack, Heroin. trauma. And then it says, crazy stories of addiction. It used to be, it used to have a big list of all the drugs. That was Chris's first huge innovation in the world of Dopey. We would put out the show and then we started to include drugs in the actual title of every episode. would like say weed, LSD, heroin, coke, crack, meth. And I think because of that, iTunes took the show down. I it was in 2018, 2019, and it was the summertime and I was at the lake, my father's opulent lake house, and they took the show down and it was so scary. And it took about a month to get it back up there, but I took all the drugs out of the title and it seemed to do the trick. We're planning our summer vacation, and I was thinking about last summer's vacation and David Manheim (02:12.558) You know, we had flown into Salt Lake City, Utah, and traveled around some national parks, which was incredible, and went back to Salt Lake City to leave. And that's when Instagram took us down. It's just funny that all these things happen when we're on trips. And if anybody's never listened to the first few episodes, first 141 episodes of Dopey, first 142 episodes of Dopey, It was me and my friend Chris and Chris I met in treatment at a place called Mountainside, which has been sponsoring us, which we love. And it was in Connecticut and me and Chris told each other stories. And when I first got sober, he was like, we should do something creative. And we started making this show and we made it for 142 episodes. And then Chris relapsed and he died. And I kept making the show. And now that we're doing the five days of Dopey, this is the opportunity to do a total replay of Dopey on Mondays for the next 135 Mondays, you will get an old, old episode of Dopey. And I'm incredibly excited about it. And Chris and I were obsessed with, and I use air quotes, the Dopey, hitting you with the Dopey. And I think as the show has gone on, the hitting with the dopey has not been as consistent as we liked it to be back then. But just for Chris, I'm going to read this ridiculously dopey email from super dope James D Hart. Hey Dave, what's up man? About seven years ago, I was strung out on speed and living in Cleveland. I was supposed to be saving money to move out to Arizona where my son was living with his mother. But during the five or six months, that I was separated from my son and living in a different state, I completely lost it. I was shooting up speed and gobbling Xanax, a dangerous combo. Of course, I lost my job and then ended up homeless. At the very end, I was literally living in an abandoned house with no electricity in the winter. Thank God my son's mother was able to get me a plane ticket and set up a sober living house for me to move directly into when I got there straight off the plane. I knew the routine. David Manheim (04:33.398) I'd been in and out of detoxes, rehabs, and sober livings for years. This wasn't my first rodeo. And honestly, even though I was going through the motions, I still had a reservation in the back of my mind that I wanted to use drugs again. Not long after that, I was prescribed Wellbutrin. I already knew from reading online that people abused it and I decided to try it. I didn't want to do real drugs because I didn't want to pop up dirty on a drug test, but I still wanted to catch a buzz. I crushed and snorted one of the highest dose pills within minutes. It felt exactly like meth. The high only lasted about a half an hour and the crash was awful. I felt useless for the rest of the day. So the next day I had a bright idea to avoid the horrible crash. I just snored another pill as soon as I felt like I was coming down from the last one. From there, I just kept going, doing more each time. Eventually I borrowed a housemate's bike. grabbed the whole bottle and took off with no plan and no idea where I was going. I ended up in a Wendy's bathroom snorting another pill with chunks literally falling out of my nose. I know that feeling. My thinking was completely gone. I had to try to come down a little because I was way too zooted. So I bought a Benzodrax inhaler. I don't know how this is. Broken open and swallowed the cotton and washed it down with some Powerade. Benzadrex makes you feel like you're on a smacked out ecstasy pill. That's the only way I can d

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