Comedian Artie Lange Steps Out 'Drug Free' With Coffee From Hoboken Starbucks

HOBOKEN, NJ — Comedian and Hoboken resident Artie Lange, whose past battles with drug addiction are well known (and well discussed in his podcasts), posted a triumphant Hoboken-based photo of himself on Twitter on Thursday to show fans that he's alive and sober.

Lange showed off his favorite specialty drink from the Hoboken Starbucks — a caramel macchiato — but more importantly, he was wearing a "Drug Free" bracelet.

More than 11,000 people liked his Tweet, and more than 900 commented.

"Drug free is great status update, please keep it up!" wrote a fan. "Sorry about Norm [MacDonald], I was listening live when he brought your incredibly funny, too fat to
fish [expletive] on Howard for the first time."

The New York Post revealed in July that while some fans may have thought that Lange, 53, "disappeared," the comedian "is doing well as he continues in an intensive New Jersey drug court
program."

Lange's West Orange-based lawyer, Michael Robbins, told the Post that Lange "is working on completing his drug court program and resuming his career" and that the former Howard Stern regular has been sober for more than two years.

Fans were so interested in Lange's Tweet last week that it was trending on Twitter for a while, and people even looked up the Starbucks store number on his cup to see where he was.

"The number of people googling that store number is so high that it actually comes up first in autocomplete," wrote a fan. "LOL. You're a trendsetter man."

Lange was arrested by Hoboken police back in March 2017 after they found heroin and paraphernalia in his car in the Shipyard development parking garage. He was arrested again in December 2017 for allegedly failing to show up in court, then jailed in early 2019.

For years before that, the Union, N.J. native had often chronicled his battles with drugs.

But now, Lange has rekindled his relationship with his favorite tame substance from the past. Back in 2018, he posted, decidedly not from Hoboken:

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