Bob Forrest on Nick Reiner, Mental Illness, and Modern Drug Psychosis

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In this crucial emergency episode, Dave is joined by longtime friend and recovery legend Bob Forrest to process the shock, grief, and fallout surrounding the Nick Reiner tragedy and the public backlash aimed at Dopey.

Bob speaks from decades of experience in addiction treatment, psychiatry-adjacent crisis work, and firsthand encounters with drug-induced psychosis, violence, and untreated mental illness. He explains why modern drugs—especially meth and stimulants—are producing homicidal and suicidal behavior, and why families often have no remaining safety net when things spiral.

They discuss:

Why parents can love their children and still need boundaries, charges, or intervention

How decriminalization + lack of psychiatric resources leaves families helpless

Why people project their own trauma and rage onto public figures and podcasts

The danger of separating “mental health” from active addiction

Celebrity kids, resentment, identity, and why some survive while others don’t

Why Dopey is being scapegoated—and why that logic doesn’t hold up

The conversation moves through music, recovery, punk rock, famous addiction stories, Christmas memories, suicidal ideation, parenting, and connection, ultimately landing on Bob’s central belief: connection, love, truth, and honesty are what keep people alive.

The episode ends with Bob defending Dopey’s right to tell the whole truth about addiction—ugly, funny, painful, and real—and offering a blunt but heartfelt holiday message to Dopey Nation. All that and more on this brand new Wednesday episode of the good old Dopey show.

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