What did Johnny Hamcheck say about his addiction and recovery on This Past Weekend?

Johnny Hamcheck told Theo Von he was addicted to heroin, later smoked crack in Washington, D.C., and stayed sober from 2010 to 2023. After surgery in 2023 he took painkillers again and was soon pranking while on pills laced with fentanyl. He spent two months in long-term treatment in Florida, got clean from hard drugs in February 2025, and says coming off Suboxone was harder than quitting fentanyl.

• Hamcheck says smoking weed again was his first step back toward hard drugs, and it made him too paranoid to finish pranks.
• Hamcheck says he quit weed and drinking almost three months before the interview; Theo Von says he is at about 77 days.
• Hamcheck spent about six months in the Workhouse, a county jail in Columbus, Ohio, and calls it worse than prison.

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“I mean, it was harder than getting off the hard fentanyl.” Johnny Hamcheck · at 11:14 — open in the transcript →

Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von (2026-10-21). Read the whole episode summary →

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