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Dave reads a Guitar World story about Kurt Cobain calling Sepultura for heroin tips in Brazil

Listener email: outrunning the cops in Michigan with a pocket full of coke and pills

Dave confesses he's losing interest in meetings and needs to triple down on spirituality

Voicemail from Rebecca in Humboldt County: 90s NYC, Skaw at Wetlands, and a summer of PCP

Dave’s memory of turning down PCP at SUNY Purchase

Shoutout to Mountainside and Recovery Unplugged

Janine interview begins (at Jeremy’s house in LA)

Early life: straight-A student, youth group leader, nerdy, argyle-wearing overachiever

Parents' divorce at 17 sent her into a total tailspin

First time doing coke at a redneck bar in Athens, Georgia (Bird Dog Tavern)

Moved to LA to become an actress, got certified to teach bar fitness

Pink meth from Armenian gangs in 2002 — Dave wants to know: WTF was it?

How she accidentally became a heroin addict at 30 after dating a Marine with a habit

Smuggling Suboxone into rehab, getting kicked out, getting arrested 4 times

Living in an abandoned cell phone store, eating stolen food, sleeping on cinder blocks

Her mom literally prays her way to the crackhouse to find her

Eventually gets clean, starts the Chasing Heroin podcast, and does a TED Talk

Explains “Post-Traumatic Growth” — and why addicts might actually get better than before

🧷 Show Notes (Teaser):

Dave’s on vacation in the Rockies, losing sleep and dreaming hard

Doug thinks group conscience is sacred — unless he doesn’t like the chairperson

The “prison walk” AA escape plan explained

Bobby Lee controversy & Reddit backlash gets a nod

Ray the Clammer's sandwich wisdom returns

Doug wants stilettos and a thong; Dave wants out of the meeting

Outro includes the classic Dopey song + shoutouts

💔 Emergency Dopey Episode from vacation in Montana

🕊️ Remembering Don Renz aka DJ – friend, guest, Dopey Nation member

📞 Don’s sister calls Dave from his hospital bedside

🚨 LAPD investigating Don’s death after an alleged assault in Koreatown

📣 Please share Don’s brother Maxwell’s Facebook post

👮‍♂️ Don's final days: fear, paranoia, and meth-induced delusions that turned out to be tragically real

📼 Classic 2016 Dopey: Don, Chris, and Dave—one of the best ever

💊 Don’s insane story: stealing 1,000 Vicodin from a pharmacy at 17

💉 Morphine, fentanyl patches, forged scripts, rehab on his 18th birthday

🍰 Vicodin in his pocket, methadone tales, sadness and hilarity

🧠 Recovery, methadone, relapse, and deep reflections

🕯️ RIP Chris, Ryan, Todd, Annie, Troy, Brian, William... and now, Don.

🙏 If you're using or struggling, please get help.