Dopey 369: Keri Blakinger on surviving an eating disorder, heroin, prison, rape, sex work, suicide and the world of competitive figure skating

Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction and Recovery

Dave & Chris

Comedy, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2022

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

This week on Dopey! In a super powerful new episode - Journalist, memoirist, and former ivy leaguer, sex worker, heroin dealer, and competitive figure skater, Keri Blakinger comes on to tell her gnarly story. PLUS! Erin Khar is back with advice, and recounts her rehab experience with Elliott Smith and Rick James! PLUS fire voicemails, emails, and much more on a powerful new episode of the good ol dopey show. About Dopey: Dopey Podcast is the world’s greatest podcast on drugs, addiction and dumb shit. Chris and I were two IV heroin addicts who loved to talk about all the coke we smoked, snorted and shot, all the pills we ate, smoked, all the weed we smoked and ate, all the booze we consumed and all the consequences we suffered. After making the show for 2 and a half years, Chris tragically relapsed and died from a fentanyl overdose. Dopey continued on, at first to mourn the horrible loss of Chris, but then to continue our mission - which was at its core, to keep addicts and alcoholics company. Whether to laugh at our time in rehab, or cry at the worst missteps we made, Dopey tells the truth about drugs, addiction and recovery. We continually mine the universe for stories rife with debauchery and highlight serious drug taking and alcoholism. We also examine different paths toward addiction recovery. We shine a light on harm reduction and medication assisted treatment. We talk with celebrities and nobodies and stockpile stories to be the greatest one stop shop podcast on all things drugs, addiction, recovery and comedy!

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0:00.0	is
0:30.0	Your favorite podcast, now making a show.
0:37.0	Good morning to you.
0:41.0	We must fall.
0:45.0	I lost as we see.
0:49.0	My very falling dreams are
0:53.0	now.
1:15.0	This episode of Dopey is brought to you by our very good friends at Oro Recovery
1:21.0	located in sunny Southern California, Oro was created by our friend Bob Forest and his friends Evan, Jared, and Bob.
1:29.0	Their mission to create a rehab facility that helps addicts and alcoholics by using compassion and connection rather than control.
1:39.0	What an amazing idea.
1:41.0	They have thousands and thousands and thousands of hours or decades of experience in treating co-occurring mental health disorders including severe mental illness.
1:52.0	They make sure that when you're kicking drugs, that the detox is as comfortable as possible, which is crucial when you're kicking heroin or meth or pills or alcohol or anything.
2:03.0	A good detox is a good detox. They have amenities you wouldn't believe, fucking sound bath meditations, surfing, equine therapy.
2:12.0	And of course, my favorite, the potentially spiritually transformative sweat lodge.
2:17.0	If you're fucked and you're in sunny Southern California or you're willing to get there, I cannot suggest going to Oro enough.
2:24.0	They are incredibly high rated in all of the publications.
2:28.0	I read in Newsweek, they were like top five in the world. Everyone that I know that has been to Oro had a good experience.
2:35.0	So check them out at ororecovery.com.
2:38.0	This episode of Dope is also brought to you by our very good friends at Sober Buddy.
2:43.0	I don't know if you're seeing all the sober buddy challenges I'm actually out in the world doing, but I love the Your Sober Buddy app.
2:50.0	It's got a free tracker. So go to your sober buddy.com, download the free tracker and boast about your clean time.
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