Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction

dopeypodcast@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

This is an interview-led addiction and recovery podcast blending dark comedy, drug-use stories, harm reduction, and candid conversations with musicians, authors, journalists, and people with lived experience. Agencies could credibly pitch authors, recording artists, addiction clinicians, recovery advocates, and public figures with compelling substance-use or recovery narratives; booking difficulty is medium because the show welcomes a broad range of guests but has also attracted recognizable cultural figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 793

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 16.9k subscribers

Instagram: 65.0k followers

Contact Information

dopeypodcast@gmail.com

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Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Authors, musicians, journalists, addiction professionals, recovery advocates, and public figures with significant lived experience of substance use or recovery and a compelling personal or cultural perspective.
Required Achievements:  
Published books, Established music careers, Recognized journalism or cultural criticism, Long-term recovery or meaningful addiction-recovery advocacy

Recent Guest Discussions

Jerry Stahl - Heroin Addiction, Recovery, Writing For Twin Peaks, David Lynch, Ben Stiller, Hubert Selby Jr., And Kindness After Addiction.

Duane Betts - Rock Music, Inherited Addiction, Opioid And Cocaine Use, Treatment, Suboxone, Relapse, Long-term Recovery, And Maintaining Sobriety Through Music And Connection.

Alan Paul - The Allman Brothers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Heroin And Alcohol Use Among Rock Musicians, Psychedelics, Recovery, And The Relationship Between Music, Addiction, And Creative Legacy.

Recent Topics

Addiction, Recovery, Drug Use, Harm Reduction, Comedy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction
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Heart Attack Doug is BACK! Glazing, Meeting Theft Drama, Surrealismo Beatles Remixes & Doug Roasts Dave (Dopey Tuesday Teaser)

July 21, 2026

Full Show only on Patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast Episode Teaser Summary: Dave is back in the garage with Heart Attack Doug for a hilarious and chaotic Dopey Tuesday reunion! The episode opens with a fresh Surrealismo remix of the Dopey theme, sparking an immediate debate over Beatles remixes, Rocky Raccoon, and who actually wrote the hits (with Dave campaigning hard for Izzy Stradlin). Doug brings the fire with savage voice memos and an all-time great impression of a whiny, anti-Semiti...

Atrocious weed, cocaine psychosis, shooting puddle water, smuggling heroin into Jamaica, Jerry Garcia, recovery, and remembering Chris - Total Replay 37

July 20, 2026

Listen without ads on patreon - www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast   This week on the Dopey Total Replay,!Dave returns from his summer hiatus and previews the family’s Pacific Northwest adventure, the upcoming Patreon Zoom, and the big decision facing DopeyCon: Friday night at the SVA Theatre or Saturday at the old church.   Then we travel back to Dopey Episode 37 for a classic conversation with Dave and Chris. They talk about sponsorship, working the steps, honesty, spirituality, and the strange m...

Dopey 592: Jerry Stahl Returns! Twin Peaks, Oprah Loved Crack, Airplane Crack Smoking & Die Hard at Katz's | Dopey

July 17, 2026

Listen without ads on patreon: www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast This week on Dopey! We open the show with a deep dive into Lou Reed's classic junkie anthem "Waiting for the Man" before reading incredible listener stories involving MDMA-assisted therapy, smashing open a safe with an axe for OxyContin, smoking crack in an airplane bathroom, a horrific flesh-eating abscess, and surviving Antabuse mixed with opioids. Then legendary author Jerry Stahl returns for one of the funniest and deepest conver...

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