Dopey Podcast Lost One of the Hosts to an OD last week! RIP Chris

[CfZrx]

If you have not listened to this podcast, please find it on iTunes. It was great to hear Chris and Dave, who had met in treatment, discuss their drug stories and talk about their life as they put together a couple years of sobriety from IV drug use live on the show. Chris actually had a few years sober at the point that he relapsed last month, and then died of an OD last week! If you were a listener, I'm sure you too are grieving this loss quite a bit, as Chris was a very cool guy. He loved AA philosophy, and during the 3 years of the show he got his Masters degree and was working in the addiction field. It's on iTunes, but here is another link https://dopeypodcast.podbean.com

 

[Mafioso]

I listened to the last episode last night and was captivated by Chris' story. I think his girlfriend and Dave had a lot of good things to say about Chris and addiction in general. Very sad and sobering.

 

[CfZrx]

I listened to the last episode last night and was captivated by Chris' story. I think his girlfriend and Dave had a lot of good things to say about Chris and addiction in general. Very sad and sobering.

Yeah, I thought about the many, many times that I (and probably you too) could have died, maybe even should have due to injecting rather random amounts of drugs. It's a trip to see who gets to live and who doesn't in our search for the perfect high.

 

[Mafioso]

Having woke up in the hospital a few times because of drugs... the thought crosses my mind fairly often. Makes me grateful for the simple things like breathing and thinking. What doesn't kill you doesn't always make you stronger, sometimes it just makes you crazy and gives you all sorts of other issues. I'd be ungrateful to consider myself anything besides lucky.

It can always come back. It's one of the hardest things to accept about the disease. From the outside, it seemed like he had everything together. New job, a girlfriend, the podcast, and so on... makes me wonder how he really felt about himself and what was happening in his world.

Hearing the two of them talk about their friend that they lost made me think about how my family and close friends would have been affected if I had a fatal OD... I'm sure there are a lot of people missing him.

It does sort of make a case for things like prescription IV heroin. If he had access to clean h/opioids then he may still be around and still have another chance. I mean who does complete prohibition really benefit/protect? Methadone and buprenorphine are abused, but the real problem are the legal opioids. Most everyone who has an opioid problem started with prescription painkillers... it's a complicated discussion though, I know...

Stay safe out there.