JD Vance Adviser Posted on Reddit for Years About Use of Cocaine, ‘Gas Station Heroin,’ Other Drugs

Later connected successful the thread, a antithetic idiosyncratic accused PsychoticMammal of being Vance due to the fact that the linked video was unlisted. “Unlisted? 21 views? Senator Vance, is that you?”

“Lol I wish! Would emotion to beryllium rolling successful the dough similar him and his VC buddies,” PsychoticMammal replied. “Honestly erstwhile I archetypal watched this the thought kinda crossed my caput that possibly he’s acquainted due to the fact that helium is simply a instrumentality himself, but I consciousness similar that’s doubtful fixed his politics. I’m definite determination are a fewer congressmen who indulge, but I uncertainty they’re utilizing zenes oregon different RCs [research chemicals]. Seems similar a coke kinda job.”

In the comments of a present deleted station connected r/ObscureDrugs, PsychoticMammal, responding to a idiosyncratic claiming that nitazenes are not obscure drugs, called Vance a “Trump footwear licker.”

“I conscionable can’t judge that this Trump footwear licker Vance is up of the curve here,” the comments reads.

PsychoticMammal described galore instances of cause usage successful posts dating from the clip Kofsky worked for past legislator Pat Toomey and Vance. “I emotion coke connected its own, mixed with benzos, mixed with opiates (my fav tbh), and adjacent emotion a enactment oregon 2 aft smoking a fewer bowls. I’d adjacent accidental that coke is my 2nd favourite cause down opiates,” they wrote earlier this year. In May of past year, they wrote astir “my latest tianeptine binge which has skyrocketed my tolerance” and “hoping to yet footwear Tia”—references to an unscheduled antidepressant that produces an effect akin to opioids and which is banned successful 12 states and commonly sold astatine convenience stores. In May 2022, they wrote: “Coke past opiates is ever my go-to. I lone speedball if I person capable opiates to redose erstwhile I’m retired of blow.”

PsychoticMammal has repeatedly posted astir suffering from an addiction to tianeptine. In a station from past twelvemonth titled “ODSMT for Tianeptine Withdrawals,” they wrote, “I’m trying to fig retired what the tianeptine to ODSMT equivalent dose conversion is. I person a fewer grams of ODSMT coming successful the message and hoping to yet footwear Tia utilizing it.”

PsychoticMammal has besides repeatedly referenced utilizing kratom, a substance sourced from the leaves of a Southeast Asian histrion that mimics the effects of opioids and is often sold astatine country stores and fume shops. Two years ago, successful effect to a Reddit idiosyncratic who was seeking symptom relief, they wrote: “I’ve dabbled successful each cause you tin deliberation of—kratom is the 1 cause that truly tripped maine up and I recovered myself addicted to. Not definite what it was astir it arsenic it’s similar a overmuch milder opiate, but antheral that crap was hellhole for maine to quit.”

WIRED’s probe shows that Kofsky appears to beryllium intimately tied to the PsychoticMammal username crossed the internet. In 2013, for example, PsychoticMammal wrote that they were a skis teacher astatine the aforesaid resort, Boston Mills Brandywine Ski Resorts, that Kofsky lists arsenic a past leader connected his LinkedIn profile, and which helium spoke astir to Cleveland Magazine successful a 2014 profile of notable country students. In different station from earlier this year, PsychoticMammal referred to the edifice arsenic their “home hill.”

In a abstracted station from November 2013, PsychoticMammal replied to a station astir a St. Vincent–St. Mary High School shot game, suggesting that they went to that schoolhouse and correctly listing the last people of the game. Kofsky’s LinkedIn relationship lists the Akron, Ohio–based schoolhouse arsenic his erstwhile precocious school, and helium is listed arsenic a 2015 postgraduate successful the schoolhouse magazine.