Interview · moment 6 of 29
Ari's Seven Days in Rehab for Percocet
from Ari Shaffir | The Tim Dillon Show #323 · #323
4 min
Guest
Ari tells the story of his short rehab stint for Percocet, feeling embarrassed it wasn't a 'harder' drug like heroin or crack compared to other patients, and how it inadvertently helped him realize he was gay.
- Ari was supposed to stay 28 days but insurance cut him off after seven days.
- Tim asks whether Ari couldn't stop using or didn't want to stop.
- Ari says going to rehab is cool and badass, one of his favorite things about himself.
- Tim jokes that having a drug problem or being mentally ill is awesome compared to being a boring person who pays bills.
- Tim sarcastically advises kids listening to start using drugs with the plan to go to rehab eventually.
- Ari mentions two people he went to rehab with are now dead from drugs.
- Tim explains what happened: they left rehab, their tolerances went down, and they used their old dosages like Philip Seymour Hoffman did.
- Tim asks whether the rehab didn't tell them about the danger of relapsing at their previous dosage levels.