Dopey 598: Leah Lost the Love of her Life to a Fentanyl Overdose, Stealing Crack from Cops, Phish Business and Hippy Shenanigans

What this episode covers

Timestamps 00:00:15 – “Dopey Afternoon” 00:01:29 – Oro Recovery 00:02:53 – Dave’s loose crown and ongoing dental nightmare 00:05:18 – September Iron Maiden shirt and DopeyCon 00:06:40 – A dog eats weed, chocolate and espresso beans 00:10:07 – Mountainside 00:12:30 – Braeburn and Reframe and Reclaim 00:14:53 – Lauren’s bell-ringer and “dragon’s breath” voicemail 00:19:41 – Zach on grief, suicidal addiction and an ordinary sober birthday 00:22:02 – Long Island Center for Recovery 00:23:20 – Patreon reactions to Hunter Biden 00:26:42 – Workit Health 00:27:30 – Meth psychosis, owls and a bizarre marriage proposal 00:31:22 – Recovery Unplugged 00:33:18 – Leah joins the show 00:35:33 – Brian and the lost Shakedown Screet memorial page 00:40:20 – Growing up with a police-officer father 00:42:46 – Taking acid at Tool and getting lost in Camden 00:49:45 – Weed, hippie culture and hiding red eyes with pool water 00:54:11 – School drug tests and learning to deceive her parents 00:58:31 – Failing out of college and discovering psychedelics 01:00:46 – Are the Grateful Dead a jam band? 01:03:05 – Dave’s complicated relationship with Phish and Trey Anastasio 01:07:43 – Acid, college and the beginning of opioid use 01:10:00 – Four oxycodone pills as a birthday present 01:14:32 – Perc 30 addiction and her first recovery meeting 01:19:06 – Two pregnancies, abortions and using opioids for emotional pain 01:23:53 – Breaking up, Suboxone withdrawal and selling cocaine 01:28:29 – Joining the “magnificent hippies” and going on tour 01:33:09 – Fake Molly and surviving tour by selling water 01:35:27 – Living in Golden Gate Park and trimming weed 01:39:58 – Culinary school, restaurant work and returning to opioids 01:42:21 – Moving from Perc 30s to heroin 01:44:17 – Treatment at Caron and four years sober 01:48:41 – Meeting Brian through the recovery community 01:51:03 – Moving to Atlantic City and experimenting with psychedelics 01:58:05 – Kratom, LSD and the thinking that preceded relapse 02:00:25 – Drinking again after four years sober 02:05:06 – COVID shutdown, pressed fentanyl pills and daily use 02:09:51 – Atlantic City heroin, crack and the Chicken Man 02:12:04 – Reversing each other’s overdoses with Narcan 02:14:27 – Smoking crack while driving and getting arrested 02:16:50 – Slipping the handcuffs and stealing back the crack 02:19:05 – Seven felonies, eight misdemeanors and returning to treatment 02:21:24 – A final summer with Brian 02:23:44 – Leah finds Brian dead after her own overdose 02:25:54 – Crack, shock and arranging Brian’s funeral 02:30:37 – Brainspotting therapy and processing traumatic grief 02:33:03 – Bedbugs, housing instability and another relapse 02:35:27 – Another overdose death and getting sober again 02:37:41 – The relapsing sponsor and another dead roommate 02:40:07 – Leah’s recovery today 02:42:27 – Farming, sober friends and becoming a grief facilitator 02:46:44 – How Brian’s death transformed Leah 02:50:20 – SafeSpot overdose-prevention hotline 02:51:18 – Spotify reactions to Hunter Biden 02:58:31 – Closing and “Good So Bad”

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