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How David Riggins Burned off his Leg While Super High on Fentanyl and Found Recovery and Other Dumb Sh!t, Ketamine, God, Xylazine, Coke, Healing

· 2 hr 11 min

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This week on Dopey! In a wicked fire doozy of a Dopey story - David Riggins comes to the show and tells his insane story. David did it all from weed to fentanyl and every drug under the sun in between!Starting as a drug dealer, joining the military and descending down a path to total insanity. David did it all from weed to fentanyl and every drug under the sun in between! David’s mission is to now help as many people as possible!

PLUS a Novak Song, Emails, Stories, more, more, more!!!!

Check out David Riggin’s Movement: www.heal-family.com

notes:
- kingpin aspirations, preteen thugging
- dealing pills and weed for a pedo at 9-10 years old
- joining the military after 9/11, breaks his legs
- prescribed morphine and oxycodone
- brick of mexican coke
- led into heroin by new pharmaceutical opiate restrictions
- estranged relationship with his kids
- effects of fent vs. other opiates vs. xylazine
- homelessness
- scamming the VA
- burn accident
- ketamine drip, opiate smorgasbord in the hospital
- amputation
- spiritual experience that removed social anxiety at a meeting
- depression, making videos as an escape, living with disability

Original title: Dopey 478: How David Riggins Burned off his Leg While Super High on Fentanyl and Found Recovery and Other Dumb Sh!t, Ketamine, God, Xylazine, Coke, Healing

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