SHOW NOTES:
🏈 Damon’s early life as a quarterback at North Texas
💨 First time trying meth — and losing control instantly
🏚️ Running burglaries out of trap houses across Dallas
🤯 Meth-induced delusions, paranoia, and total madness
🚔 Getting busted in front of his parents
⚖️ Sentenced to 65 years in a Texas prison
⛓️ Life behind bars — navigating gangs and survival
☕ The coffee bean story that changed everything
🧠 Finding faith, structure, and recovery
📚 Rebuilding his life and helping others
🎤 From inmate to speaker and author
🧃 Bonus: Damon’s take on prison hooch and microwaved food
❤️ Classic Dopey themes: addiction, consequences, redemption, and dark comedy
🔗 Links:
www.damonwest.org
www.patreon.com/dopeypodcast
🖤 Fucking toodles for Chris.
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Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction