I don't know where you're coming from but I think its coke.

it cant be a diet coke. caffeine really energizes a person

Yeah cause there's no caffeine in diet coke right?

yeah cause thats the joke, not the play on word of coke

So you actually think diet coke has no caffeine then? You're sticking with that

Could also be from snorting Percocet or Oxy.

I had a friend that was addicted to opioids. He'd go on the bathroom, snort, and come back energized and talkative.

Yeah I worked with a dude who snorted heroine at work and shot of up outside of work. When he'd go into the porta potty or wherever and snort, he'd come back out like he was shot out of a cannon. Singing the music on the radio and yelling a lot, generally acting like a complete spaz.

I thought it was coke he was doing, until I brought it up with an addict who's been clean several years. He said yeah, sounds like he's tooting heroine.

So maybe Artie is crushing opioid pills, or maybe he's just straight up snorting heroine.

Nah. He's way too happy/friendly and active in the discussion. You'll know he's on opiates when he's wearing sunglasses and not laughing at EVERY "joke."

I'm going to attend every show and go to the bathroom right after he comes out. I'll sell whatever I find that he left and quit my job.