The Time Artie Lange Threw Up Live on Howard Stern | Joe Rogan

But I think I'm far enough out of getting high. Like I got, the drugs are finally out of my fucking system. There's other drugs they give you that are basically legal dope. There's this thing called Suboxone, which is an opiate blocker, but it's dope. What does it do to you? It stops you from getting high on heroin, but it stops the withdrawals too. So you also get high. You know, it's an opioid. It's legal. So if you're on what they call Suboxone maintenance, you can pee with that in your urine and you'll be all right if they know you're on it. But you're getting high. Through a doctor. You're getting high. It's like methadone. Right. Methadone. We used to have these guys that would come to the pool hall. We'd call them methadoneans. Yeah. They would go down the street. They'd get their methadone. They'd come to the pool hall and they'd just be zombies. OK. Another story about methadone. For a little while, I took methadone at a methadone clinic while I was on Howard because I was desperately trying to get off heroin. But look, again, the only difference between methadone and heroin is legality. Like like once the courts are cool with one for some reason and the other one's illegal. I mean, if you have no legal issues, why not just keep doing heroin? It makes no fucking sense. Probably better for you. Heroin is the one drug that doesn't affect any organ. Like the way people die on heroin is you you overdose. But like look at Keith Richards. I mean, he just got good shit. He got pure shit. And he never OD'd and died. So like he's almost preserved. It kind of doesn't affect your liver. Nothing like that. So there's no real health consequences other than over. Other than really other than OD and the withdrawals because it becomes a part of your body. Like it's it's again, I'm not recommending it. It's a living hell. It's a living hell. The lifestyle and the people that get into your life because of it. So a couple of times I went to a methadone clinic that opened at 6 a.m. Because the guy was a fan of Stern, he would let me come into the methadone clinic at 5.30. And get I took a they give it to you in orange juice. Okay. Take a shot of orange juice with the methadone. Twice I threw up on the air. And one time again, I was never funnier off the shit than this. Howard was talking. I think it was Roseanne Barr. And Howard said, you look thin. She was on the phone. And I'm nauseous. Like. Listen to this timing. I'm nauseous from the methadone. I feel like I'm going to throw up and I got a live mic. You know. And and she goes, I yeah, Howard. I've been exercising. And he goes, what have you been doing? She goes, well, I get I get in a two piece bathing suit now. As soon as she said that, you have to go. As soon as and Howard thought I was doing it to be funny. He goes, what are you doing? And I go, as soon as she said I get a two piece. My community timing was better. So now I'm doing that for a while. But at that point, I know legal. She's like, what the fuck am I even trying this for? Right. You know.