Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew

[Badly Drawn Girl]

I thought for sure there would be a thread on this but I didn't see one. Hope I'm not overlooking it!

Is anyone watch this show? I'm not quite as into it as I was last time but I was also in the middle of a kick when the first season was on so it felt more relevant in a way.

I cannot remember which woman it was, but in the first episode she was showing off her pill collection and she took a tiny bit of sub, put it in her mouth and proclaimed it was as strong as heroin. She made it seem like some incredibly powerful high. I'm always surprised when no one bothers to correct false information like this, especially since it is a show about drugs.

Gary Busey is always good a laugh although he makes me incredibly uncomfortable. If I was stuck with him in treatment I'd have to use just to get through the day.

[Hoss]

I cannot remember which woman it was, but in the first episode she was showing off her pill collection and she took a tiny bit of sub, put it in her mouth and proclaimed it was as strong as heroin. She made it seem like some incredibly powerful high.

I DVR'd the first episode and watched it a couple of days ago, haven't seen anything past that first one, but that pissed me off when I saw that model girl taking her "Sub chunklet", as she did say it was like Heroin and when she put it under her tongue she made a face like it kicked in that second.

As it so happens, my Mom was also watching that episode at a later date and saw that, and she knows I'm on Subs, so she called me like "you didn't tell me your medicine is like Heroin!". I had to calm her down and explain everything to her, and she took it pretty good, but still is a bit more weary of it now after seeing someone on a rehab show taking it and going into like nod-mode in a 5 second clip.

I mean, if someone has no opiate tolerance and takes Bup, of course they're going to feel something, but I just didn't personally like the way it was portrayed on that show. I highly doubt that girl had no opiate tolerance.

It is a fact, though, that Dr. Drew thinks Buprenorphine treatment is bullshit, as he has said it on Lovelines many times. Still, it was just annoying to see that on TV. BAH!

[Consumed.]

Youd think GnRs exdrummer would have some serious withdrawals only having three days sober since 12. Maybe he's so burnt it doesnt effect him

[longduckdong]

Im not trying to be a downer here, but I hate shit like this. All it does in my opinion is exploit people in these positions. For example, I do not think they'd take a bunch of boring people who get along real well, and would have easy (using easy as a relative term) time getting sober.

Nope, they take the Rodney Kings, Gary Buseys, Nikki Mckibbens and Tawney Kiteans of the world. People who absolutely 100% surround themselves with controversey and outlandish behavier. Which is expected to make an explosive show.

Profiting millions upon millions for preying on people down on their luck. Only in America can slime like this be considered entertaining TV.





Youd think GnRs exdrummer would have some serious withdrawals only having three days sober since 12. Maybe he's so burnt it doesnt effect him

Sometime if you get the chance (Maybe you have already though), it's an interesting read on how he got his speach impedement.

"A particularly hellaceous speedball"

[Boxcar]

I thought for sure there would be a thread on this but I didn't see one. Hope I'm not overlooking it!

Is anyone watch this show? I'm not quite as into it as I was last time but I was also in the middle of a kick when the first season was on so it felt more relevant in a way.

I cannot remember which woman it was, but in the first episode she was showing off her pill collection and she took a tiny bit of sub, put it in her mouth and proclaimed it was as strong as heroin. She made it seem like some incredibly powerful high. I'm always surprised when no one bothers to correct false information like this, especially since it is a show about drugs.

Gary Busey is always good a laugh although he makes me incredibly uncomfortable. If I was stuck with him in treatment I'd have to use just to get through the day.


wasnt it mary carey? i dunno fer sure but i think it was her.

[Ludakris]

Youd think GnRs exdrummer would have some serious withdrawals only having three days sober since 12. Maybe he's so burnt it doesnt effect him

Actually, I assume you didn't catch the backstory OR simply got too irritated watching celebs pimp themselves out to a Rehab center for the most part to just get some camera time...anyways, Steven Adler was taken to a hospital 2 weeks prior to the first filming. He was in really bad shape and his wife and brother called Dr. Drew to come get him early, so when he arrived at rehab, he was already 11 days clean...


wasnt it mary carey? i dunno fer sure but i think it was her.

I do believe the person in question is Amber Smith, when they did her little "bio" at the beginning I, like everyone else here, wanted to reach through the TV and smack the shit outta her. She pulls out her pill box thing, and starts talking about "these are the uppers, these are the downers" of course talking about ADD meds and benzo's, and then proceeds to talk about how she is a hardcore opiate user and "I use so much opiate that they won't fit in my pill box" and makes this big hullabaloo about what a hardcore opiate user she is, and then takes a chunk of suboxone and talks about how it's just like heroin and blah blah blah.

My guess is that she's completely naive to the actual workings of most of her pills, and takes her subs and then chokes down half a dozen vicodin and thinks "well this doesnt do shit, I must have a huge tolerance".

Anyways, this is definitely a show I love to hate...can't stand it, yet I follow it religiously, and often times am yelling at my TV set.

Jeff and Steven I feel for, I'm not sure what to think of Rodney at this point...he doesn't seem to like anyone, which is fine...but the rest of them, I just can't take them seriously, and their sheer ignorance bugs the holy living hell out of me...

[alowishus]

I thought for sure there would be a thread on this but I didn't see one. Hope I'm not overlooking it!

Is anyone watch this show? I'm not quite as into it as I was last time but I was also in the middle of a kick when the first season was on so it felt more relevant in a way.

I cannot remember which woman it was, but in the first episode she was showing off her pill collection and she took a tiny bit of sub, put it in her mouth and proclaimed it was as strong as heroin. She made it seem like some incredibly powerful high. I'm always surprised when no one bothers to correct false information like this, especially since it is a show about drugs.

Gary Busey is always good a laugh although he makes me incredibly uncomfortable. If I was stuck with him in treatment I'd have to use just to get through the day.

There is a thread (or cxouple) about the 1st eps.
Haven't seen the new one yet - is it "I smoke to much weed a day girl" type or do they have people that aren't just there to better their PR or need the $$$?

[Narkotikon]

The Sub thing that that woman did is both funny (because she's obviously stupid) and scary (because no one bothered to portray it accurately or correct her). It probably is the case that she's taking it, then taking a pure agonist on top of the Sub, then assuming she has a huge tolerance, which wouldn't be true because the Sub is simply blocking the pure agonist.

I watched this show last season, with that one guy who was in the hospital and Dr. Drew explicitly said no benzos or opiates, even though the guy was an opiate / benzo addict and having fucking seizures. I mean, how fucking reckless can you get. I think a lot of it is staged, and they only put washed up, crazy ass "celebs" (if you even want to call them celebrities) on there to get ratings. Kind of like Jerry Springer: fill the show with crazy ass drug addicts who happen to have been famous at once, and you're bound to get ratings. I do think it's a shame they exploit addiction for ratings.

If they really wanted a good show, they would combine it with those half-ass celebrities and real drug addicts (i.e. regular people, not celebs). I can almost guarantee the real drug addicts would beat their asses, yank that woman's pill box / Subs away, shake them real good, and say "SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU WHINY ASS SPOILED WANNABE JUNKIES!" I really do believe that most of these celebs view this as a way to get back into the spotlight. It's pathetic.

And doctor Drew. I consider him to be pretty much like those doctors on Dr. 90210 (that reality show about Beverly Hills plastic surgeons) and Dr. Phil (even though he's not a real doctor, just a tool). He's only in it for his own fame, glory, ratings, money, whatever. He's not equipped to treat addicts or anyone else IMO, because to do that I feel you should be concerned about the patient, and not your own fame. Plus, brush up on fucking benzo w/d you fucking idiot. I hope someone has a major seizure and he gets his ass sued one of these days. Maybe they'll take away his little stethescope.

And Gary Busey. I don't care if he's been sober for years, the guy looks criminally insane. Like one minute you'd be having a serious conversation, then the next he'd either be yelling in your face for something off-the-wall, or dancing in a tu tu around you showing you his ballet skills. I think he must have some major brain damage. His eyes are just weird, very bugged out. Kind of like bipolar people when they're really manic, or psychotic people. I would feel extremely uncomfortable if I were in a room with him alone, and he was my counselor. I'd have to get the hell out of there, or use to deal with it too. For some reason I think it would feel like some dirty old man watching a little girl. Something very creepy like that.

[jacky]

I watched about the first 10 minutes of the program.

but the DR pissed me off so much, I had to turn it off.
if Cannabis is prescribed by your DR, in a state that has decided its legal, then your acting within the boundaries of "sobriety",...if not technically, then surely one is acting as a "sober user"

Gary Busey might be a bit strange, but I thought it rude that the intake nurse and the head DR. determine that his head injuries were part of the reason for his strange behaviour.
the guy just seemed a bit too excited to "help out" at the center.

I guess I should have watched longer, because I really dont understand the discrepancy between what Mr Busey thought he was doing, and why he was at the center in the first place.
they were bringing him in like he was going to go through treatment, and he thought he was going in to act as a recovering addict guide of sorts...what? did someone "trick" him into going into that facility by telling him he would get a spot on TV to try and help out other celebrity addicts?
the guy showed nothing but compassion in my eyes, but then I only watched 10% of the show.

I bet you anything that the center approves nicotine and caffeine consumption, in lew of the patients being of the hard drug using types...
so medical cannabis is a no no in this Dr's bag huh?

he seems like a decent individual really...

when Dr's are happy to hand out effexor(venlafaxine) without dispensing that the stuff acts on the serotonin/dopamine/opioid system, and is almost as addictive to some people as heroin...or totally willing to handle their "sober" patients with other psychoactives that can be somewhat enjoyable like xanax, or klonipin, or possibly dangerous anti depressants, drugs like valium that can kill you if you quit them too quickly......when one of the leading causes of death is from the side effects of nicotine addiction/tobacco use...
why bag on a guy that is clean from his drug of choice, who is going along with a medical system provided by the state, for smoking medical cannabis.

its fucking stupid.

I know the guy trys to help people out....and mostly people willing to seek treatment of their own will and volition, and he might not be the standard contributor to the USA's "recovery gulag", but its like bagging on a methadone user for quitting heroin to use only methadone as prescribed.

I really would like to see what drugs this DR regularly prescribes.
I doubt cannabis is not as detrimental to a persons health as 50% of the medications that he may regularly prescribe
maybe he doesnt reside in a county that legalized medical cannabis use...or maybe he is just tight.
real tight.
cause cannabis in most places in California is not even thought about anymore.
I have driven by bus stops in California and seen old grannys and teenagers smoking fat joints of cannabis, cannabis clubs before the big raids a few years ago were all over the place it seemed.

the actress comparing subs as basically heroin was a bit ditzy.....but I have to say that I have seen people sick and puking for hours after taking sometimes only a few hundred micrograms of buprenorphine.....while typical opiate type overdose from buprenorphine is probably not physically possible, I wouldnt put it past the substance to be dangerous....especially if you are an addict and you eat the stuff before you are really sick.
that forced withdrawl is devastating.

I think that they should treat these people with other addicts who arent actors or actresses or performers.
their reality is usually much different from the average person.
we dont get paid to go to rehab to do a show.....
not that I know exactly what a celebrity gets from doing the show, maybe its just free treatment, but its a different experience.
most of them can afford the average persons yearly wage for just a few weeks of treatment.

watching that show has made me feel gifted in a sense...here I am, heroin free, enjoying legal use of opiates/opioids, and herbs, doing interesting research with herbs, enjoying a time in history that allows a common poor person like me access to a good percentage of the worlds botanical medicinals/euphoriants .....its amazing what a little discipline and planning, and restraint can do for ones habit.
I may not be "sober" in the technical sense, but I am healthier and more productive than when I was just drinking and smoking tobacco and work was about my life.

some people are better off not touching drugs....probably most people are better off sober.....but herbs and certian drugs do have their place in society beyond just the medicinal....attaining "siddhas" is just one example of research/application of herbs/drugs, philosophical, poetic, as a substance to open up communication between people, there is some positive application.

I would love to peer into this Dr's current lifestyle....perhaps he is a pinnacle of sorts of physical and mental health wrapped into one person...perhaps his compassion outweighs his redundancys a 100 to 1.....but looking at him I just cant imagine that this guy hasnt toked one up in his past. or enjoyed the leisure that many Dr's have with obtaining sample medications and selective treatment from other Dr's....

[alowishus]

Dr. Drew is a good doc and I'd take him any day, the last thing he'll do is rx you anything though, the members in there do get meds for w/d's etc. It's not just C/T but hat would make for better TV!!

Whole bunch of peeps C/T on tv......

[marshalldylan1]

This is the funniest show that has ever been on TV. Me and a friend get really high and watch it and just laugh our asses off at how stupid/hilarious it is.

Gary Busey is the coolest/craziest mother fucker ever.

Edit: I forgot, but did anyone see the model who was basically throat-fucking herself for about 5 minutes? She was laying in the middle of the hallway, trying to throw up by sticking her fingers in her throat, and it would just cut to one of the counselors just staring, then back to her trying to throw up, then back to the counselor. It was just that for 5 minutes, and she never threw up!

[KiloByte]

Im not trying to be a downer here, but I hate shit like this. All it does in my opinion is exploit people in these positions. For example, I do not think they'd take a bunch of boring people who get along real well, and would have easy (using easy as a relative term) time getting sober.

Nope, they take the Rodney Kings, Gary Buseys, Nikki Mckibbens and Tawney Kiteans of the world. People who absolutely 100% surround themselves with controversey and outlandish behavier. Which is expected to make an explosive show.

Profiting millions upon millions for preying on people down on their luck. Only in America can slime like this be considered entertaining TV.

Nobody forced these people onto the show, in fact like you said they're attention whores who love to surround themselves with controversey. They love this kind of shit.

[LorTabitha]

For those of you who like Dr. Drew, I highly recommend his book "Cracked" from a few years back. It's a "fictionalized" accounting of typical patients and their treatment (basically he changed names and a few details to protect identities). You definitely get an idea of where he's coming from.

[longduckdong]

Nobody forced these people onto the show, in fact like you said they're attention whores who love to surround themselves with controversey. They love this kind of shit.

I agree with you 100%.... I didnt mean to sound like they were victims in anyways. Thats another reason it's nothing more than exploitation. For both sides.

But I do feel the "heads" of it all are the scum of the Earth too though. I mean sure the patients are obvious attention whores, but c'mon, they're still addicts, and still probably need some serious help. And aside from the attention-whoring of the show, they pobably thought they were going to get it. Sadly they won't. The #1 objective of this show for the "heads" would be to make money on a controversial show. Not help a bunch of junkies/'drunks into recovery. If the show lost money, yet had a huge successful sobritety rate, it'd still be cancelled within seconds. And that my friends, makes shows like this, and the people that create them: The Scum of the Earth.

[bigNasty]

Youd think GnRs exdrummer would have some serious withdrawals only having three days sober since 12. Maybe he's so burnt it doesnt effect him
He went into detox for 9 nine days in a hospital before he came to the rehab center. So the cameras didn't catch his wd's




Actually, I assume you didn't catch the backstory OR simply got too irritated watching celebs pimp themselves out to a Rehab center for the most part to just get some camera time...anyways, Steven Adler was taken to a hospital 2 weeks prior to the first filming. He was in really bad shape and his wife and brother called Dr. Drew to come get him early, so when he arrived at rehab, he was already 11 days clean...

Oops i didn't see you post. But it did say he was already 9 days sober before he came to rehab, he was 11 or 12 days sober when they had the "whats the longest you've been sober since you were 11 yrs old?" scene

[OxyContinuously]

i have a big problem with jeff conaway...to me he is nothing more than an overgrown baby...he mis behaves like a toddler unti lhe gets what he wants...


imo he should be beaten with bats until learns how to act

[bigNasty]

i have a big problem with jeff conaway...to me he is nothing more than an overgrown baby...he mis behaves like a toddler unti lhe gets what he wants...


imo he should be beaten with bats until learns how to act
I love when he goes


911!!!!!


he really is an overgrown baby but I'd probably act like that too if i had to detox from 360mg's of oxy with a fuct up back

[OxyContinuously]

I love when he goes


911!!!!!


he really is an overgrown baby but I'd probably act like that too if i had to detox from 360mg's of oxy with a fuct up back

remember that?

and also when drew said he and his g/f should be separated, boy did the shit hit the fan!

[Narkotikon]

^^^^^^^ That's the truth. I did catch a part of the first episode of this new season, and she was wanting to come into rehab, but Dr. Drew said they'd send her to a different part of the building to separate her from Jeff. I mean, both she and Jeff could not figure out why they'd do that. Like it was some off-the-wall, how-dare-they-even-suggest-that kind of thing.

Plus, she really does come across to me as someone riding the coat tails of Jeff's former success. Like she thinks that by being his girlfriend and "supporting" him on this show she's going to segway into an acting career herself. I do not like her.

[bigNasty]

^^^^^^^ That's the truth. I did catch a part of the first episode of this new season, and she was wanting to come into rehab, but Dr. Drew said they'd send her to a different part of the building to separate her from Jeff. I mean, both she and Jeff could not figure out why they'd do that. Like it was some off-the-wall, how-dare-they-even-suggest-that kind of thing.

Plus, she really does come across to me as someone riding the coat tails of Jeff's former success. Like she thinks that by being his girlfriend and "supporting" him on this show she's going to segway into an acting career herself. I do not like her.
+1. I couldn't agree more. She's obviously a piece of shit thats dating Jeff for money, drugs, or fame.
And she acts dumb when they cut off her xanax when she was only taking 2mg's when she came into rehab. That might be bad for someone with actual anxiety but i think she was just playing it up for the cameras

[bigNasty]

I do believe the person in question is Amber Smith, when they did her little "bio" at the beginning I, like everyone else here, wanted to reach through the TV and smack the shit outta her. She pulls out her pill box thing, and starts talking about "these are the uppers, these are the downers" of course talking about ADD meds and benzo's, and then proceeds to talk about how she is a hardcore opiate user and "I use SO MUCH OPIATE that they won't fit in my pill box" and makes this big hullabaloo about what a hardcore opiate user she is, and then takes a chunk of suboxone and talks about how it's just like heroin and blah blah blah.
...
For some reason, it really irks me when she says "I take so much opiate". I don't know which one is gramatically correct but i wish she would say "I take so many opiates"

[Ludakris]

For some reason, it really irks me when she says "I take so much opiate". I don't know which one is gramatically correct but i wish she would say "I take so many opiates"

Seriously! I don't know if it's just her over all demeanor, her blatant ignorance of drugs she's taking and then passing on her misinformation to the television audience, or what...but she just drives me right up a god damn wall...though I did briefly feel sorry for her while she was finger fucking her mouth in the hallway in full blown WDs, but that went away quickly

This season it seems as though they were really hard up for "celebrities", I mean, the 3rd runner up from American Idol's first season (time and booze/coke did not do her well), and Rodney King...I must say that I am looking forward to the episode when Gary and Jeff get into a bit of a fight, that should make for some good tv :rolleyes:

One thing I don't get is, what the fuck is Jeff going to do w/out opies? I mean, I've got some decently severe back problem and without my meds I wouldn't be able to lead a normal life, I'd be stuck in bed some days wanting to kill myself.

Still, if nothing else, this show makes for a good chuckle here and there...I wish they would correct some of the misinformation though...ah well, it's nice to wish

[bigNasty]

One thing I don't get is, what the fuck is Jeff going to do w/out opies? I mean, I've got some decently severe back problem and without my meds I wouldn't be able to lead a normal life, I'd be stuck in bed some days wanting to kill myself.

I think the thing with Jeff is that they are trying to get his tolerance down, stop him from ABUSING his meds and stop the cocaine use. I don't think they cut him completely off his pain meds cause you always hear him say he'll leave if they do

[marshalldylan1]

For some reason, it really irks me when she says "I take so much opiate". I don't know which one is gramatically correct but i wish she would say "I take so many opiates"

Yeah, that really irked me too. Dr. Drew also called them "opiate" Like "she's addicted to opiate" and shit like that. Made me so mad!

I think there is a new episode tonite.

[bigNasty]

Yeah, that really irked me too. Dr. Drew also called them "opiate" Like "she's addicted to opiate" and shit like that. Made me so mad!

I think there is a new episode tonite.
He says "Usually people addicted to opiate are trying to escape from emotional pain".

And yes, there's a new episode tonight at 8 or 9 CST

[Saint]

Is it a re-run? I'm pretty sure I saw the Jeff episodes last year (in Europe) and remember that he really irritated me cos he was moaning and screaming, yet nodding out all the fucking time!
In withdrawal... yeah right.

[pain-patient]

This is the funniest show that has ever been on TV. Me and a friend get really high and watch it and just laugh our asses off at how stupid/hilarious it is.

Gary Busey is the coolest/craziest mother fucker ever.

Edit: I forgot, but did anyone see the model who was basically throat-fucking herself for about 5 minutes? She was laying in the middle of the hallway, trying to throw up by sticking her fingers in her throat, and it would just cut to one of the counselors just staring, then back to her trying to throw up, then back to the counselor. It was just that for 5 minutes, and she never threw up!


Now, THAT is the way to experience this show -- with one's consciousness slightly [or not so slightly:rolleyes:] altered. If this show is watched without such "adjustments", it only aggravates and irritates like a grain of sand in one's eye. How else can you sit there while Dr. Drew shoves heavy duty mood regulators down Gary Busey's throat while denying him his usual medication -- to wit: medical marijuana? I mean, if one weren't a lil' high, one might think Busey's "unusual behavior" which lead to Dr. Drew calling in a colleague was in fact due to GB not being able to use his regular medication, medical marijuana.

Thus. I totally enjoy watching this show as long as there's beer in the fridge, a spliff rolled and ready to light, and bottle of dillies or other opis on the coffee table. Without these "safeguards", my tendency is to watch the show as if it were indeed "reality" and then it just gets me pissed off because I think about the false messages the show sends out about things like opiates, medical mj, hell......everything!

That said, I think I will work on a new invention callled "Dr. Drew's medical popcorn" for use with the show. I'm thinking that a bowl filled with a pile of OC's, some bezos, an eight ball, and some special butter would do the trick.

Best,


M

[clinton]

I cannot remember which woman it was, but in the first episode she was showing off her pill collection and she took a tiny bit of sub, put it in her mouth and proclaimed it was as strong as heroin. She made it seem like some incredibly powerful high. I'm always surprised when no one bothers to correct false information like this, especially since it is a show about drugs.



i saw this to , i had to laugh..her reaction aFter taking it was priceless,like she had just mainlined h.....im sure she was told to do this by the director
what a joke

[Deadfiend]

Anyone heard about this shit, I read about it right before the new season started.

Officials Probe 3 Deaths, Rape at Dr. Drew's Hospital (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5635284&page=1)




We mentioned last week that Aurora Las Encinas Hospital, the Dr. Drew Pinsky-endorsed rehab facility in Pasadena, CA, is under investigation after 3 deaths and the rape of a 16-year old girl happened within weeks of one another.
Well, it looks like Dr. Drew is starting to do the distancing dance!
Prior to the scandal, the doc's photo was featured prominently on the hospital's website.
Pinksky's photo disappeared from the hospital's site on Friday, as the scandal story started to get more legs.
Pinskytold the LA Times on Thursday, "It's not my hospital," and added that he thought it was a "bizarre misconception" that people associated him with Las Encinas. He also went on to say, "we make a point of not promoting the fact . . . that we work there."
When the reporter told Pinsky he was the only physician with a photo on Las Encinas' website home page, Dr. Drew claimed said he was unaware of that.
The Pinsky bio posted on the websites for his radio show Loveline and VH1's Celebrity Rehab , however, stated:
"He is currently the Medical Director for the Department of Chemical Dependency Services at Las Encinas Hospital, a world-renowned psychiatric facility in Pasadena known for treating celebrity patients"
Very curious!

[bigNasty]

Anyone heard about this shit, I read about it right before the new season started.

Officials Probe 3 Deaths, Rape at Dr. Drew's Hospital (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5635284&page=1)




We mentioned last week that Aurora Las Encinas Hospital, the Dr. Drew Pinsky-endorsed rehab facility in Pasadena, CA, is under investigation after 3 deaths and the rape of a 16-year old girl happened within weeks of one another.
Well, it looks like Dr. Drew is starting to do the distancing dance!
Prior to the scandal, the doc's photo was featured prominently on the hospital's website.
Pinksky's photo disappeared from the hospital's site on Friday, as the scandal story started to get more legs.
Pinskytold the LA Times on Thursday, "It's not my hospital," and added that he thought it was a "bizarre misconception" that people associated him with Las Encinas. He also went on to say, "we make a point of not promoting the fact . . . that we work there."
When the reporter told Pinsky he was the only physician with a photo on Las Encinas' website home page, Dr. Drew claimed said he was unaware of that.
The Pinsky bio posted on the websites for his radio show Loveline and VH1's Celebrity Rehab , however, stated:
"He is currently the Medical Director for the Department of Chemical Dependency Services at Las Encinas Hospital, a world-renowned psychiatric facility in Pasadena known for treating celebrity patients"
Very curious!
I heard about ^^^ that too but never heard or read the full story. I have noticed that the chubby guy from last season isn't on there anymore, maybe he raped the 16 yr old.

Nevermind, a 14 yr old patient was raped by a 16 yr old patient. Here's a link to the story http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=6343176


Check it out. I think it's hilarious that the end of the article says this

"A previous version of this story said actor Gary Busey was a patient on Dr. Drew's Celebrity Rehab. Busey was in fact a mentor on the show not a patient.)"

[marshalldylan1]

That said, I think I will work on a new invention callled "Dr. Drew's medical popcorn" for use with the show. I'm thinking that a bowl filled with a pile of OC's, some bezos, an eight ball, and some special butter would do the trick.


Yes, I think it would make that show MUCH more tolerable. Call me when you plan on doing this:D

[Badly Drawn Girl]

I have mixed feelings about Dr. Drew. We certainly have different opinions about things but I also think he's a very bright man. I also find him to have a calming effect on me. During the first season I was kicking and watching the shows were a form of therapy for me. During one episode he was talking to a patient and he told her something along the lines of "You are stronger than you know." Well for some reason I latched on to that phrase and during the worst of my wds, when my mind was racing a million miles an hour and I was tempted to swallow a bullet, I would focus on Dr. Drew repeating that line to me, over and over again. It became a mantra and I suppose in a way I was meditating. All I know is that it worked. So for that reason alone, I feel a personal connection to him which I realize sounds wacky.

He has said that he has no control over the celebrities on the show and that they don't book them in advance. They take the people who need help right then and there at the beginning of filming. I don't know how true that is. He also said that some things are outside of his control, for example the field trips. Normally they would not be taking patients out on a boat a few days into treatment (if at all) but that the producers want to spice it up a bit instead of showing just treatment stuff. Another interesting thing is how hard it is to dance around mentioning AA and the 12 steps, which they are not allowed to show. He gets blamed for showing treatment stuff, then he gets blamed for not talking about the 12 steps. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

It is definitely a guilty pleasure show but I'm all for shows that get people to talk about drugs. It can be a good starting point for conversations and hopefully it helps increase awareness about addiction in general.

[SUBoxZERO]

I watch this just to see what Gary buseys crazy ass is gonna say next. Him and his "buseyisms" LOL

[Naomi]

anybody know where i can find this on youtube?

anyway, it doesnt matter how much money you have, if you are a heroin addict, you are just as in a shitty place as somebody who has £0 in the bank, mentally that is. it is true that if you have money your life is going to be easier. fact. though whats dangerous about these type of shows is unlike normal addicts, they have the money to go into rehab straight away. when i had been an addict for a few months, then a year i tried to get into rehab on the NHS. no chance, i was told i hadnt been an addict for long enough and there were others who had higher priority. we dont get a chance to nip it in the bud, people with money do. so when they catch some of these people, like the girl with the subuxtex, she probably isnt in the advanced staged of opiate addiction. she is probably still holding it together to an extent. these shows make it appear as if its EASY to get into rehab, and if we have got wound up by fellow addicts and we know what its like to be there, imagine the non-addicted population! they will just probably think we are a bunch of whining, spoilt, lazy bums! tantruming like children to get our drugs. still, im a sucker for other peoples misery, id love to see it!

[Narkotikon]

I saw the first episode of this new season, and I've "tried" to watch other episodes since then, but I just can't. For one, I just don't like it as much as I did last season. And secondly, Gary Busey just freaks me out. When he's in the scene, I just get a creepy feeling, like a dirty old child molester is watching me or something. That's the best way I can explain it. I'm not exactly sure why he's the way he is. I think it has something to do with a head injury from an accident, or something like that, and of course I'm sure years of drug use took its toll. So, in that regard, I sort of feel sorry for him, but he still just creeps me out.

I will say that if they ever did a theatrical version of Alice in Wonderland on Broadway, he'd be the PERFECT Mad Hatter.

[Naomi]

gary busey? thats the old drunk in the film SILVER BULLET right? man, im gonna look that up on youtube.com i loved that film. i think it was an adaptation of a stephen king novella???? how old is gary now? he didnt look too creepy then but i think that was an 80s classic production.

[blackdog]

DA/DAWG'S re enactment of a celebrity rehab show featureing jeff conway of the TAXI tv show.....
911,911...........911
thank you, thank you very much
dawg,:p

[pain-patient]

There is a thread (or cxouple) about the 1st eps.
Haven't seen the new one yet - is it "I smoke to much weed a day girl" type or do they have people that aren't just there to better their PR or need the $$$?



They actually GET PAID for this shit??? I just thought their recompense was the air time and treatment:rolleyes:

If they get paid, and if Dr. Drew says this is "reality based", then they should have to show a disclaimer saying they are paid to simulate treatment" or some such shit.

Best

M

[pain-patient]

I watch this just to see what Gary buseys crazy ass is gonna say next. Him and his "buseyisms" LOL



Why does Busey remind me so much of our new VP-elect, Joe Biden? Anyone else feel that way?;)

[Saint]

We have a Dutch equivalent of Dr. Drew's Celebrity Rehab and it annoys the hell out of me. It annoys me even more than dr. Drew ever did.
First of all, seven out of ten patients are in rehab for their 'pot-addiction'. Sigh.

Then there's one girl, surprisingly, actually physically addicted to something. She has used at least one gram of heroin daily. So, in Rehab they give her 30 mgs of methadone and a voice-over says 'WOW, 6 pills, that is an amazing lot! SIX PILLS, WOW, THAT MANY!!'...
Come again?? 30 mgs is nothing coming of a decent smack habit! I remember getting 50 mgs of done and still feeling sick as a dog coming of an 8 year long IV-habit.

Then there's another girl with a hefty triple alcohol/benzo/SSRI addiction and they give her NOTHING.
And I mean nothing at all, nada, when she comes in. She's all shaking and shit but she can not even have an aspirin because that is 'food for addiction'.

The whole thing is just fucking ridiculous, not to mention life threatening. You can not cold turkey anyone with an addiction like that. It made me furious because this is the exact reason why the average Joe on the street thinks that kicking any habit of this size is a piece of cake and people saying otherwise are a bunch of whiners. They said it's nothing more than the flue on t.v., right? And t.v. is God so there you go.

And the counselor is a totally straight, mega annoying snooty stuck up bitch who does not listen to a word her 'clientele' says, let alone understand any.
Actually, it got on my nerves so much that I wrote them a letter to ask what the hell it is they think they're doing.
Didn't get a reply though.

[blutuesday]

Actually, it got on my nerves so much that I wrote them a letter to ask what the hell it is they think they're doing.
Didn't get a reply though.

LOL. Another reason why I <3 you so much.

Fucking hillarious.

Oh, and TV is God, over here in the u.s. it's absurd. I had a friend who planned her whole life around her "shows"

[The_Highwayman]

I rad that the people get paid to do the show and most likely free treatment, that can be the only way Jeff Conaway does the show, he can't possibly have any money, and if there was a guy who didn't want to get clean it is him...on this season he keeps trying to have another surgery so he can have pain meds....

As for the first season I remember one time I was kicking and watching and it was the episode when Jeff was trying to leave AGAIN..anyways I kept thinking to myself "Jesus man, you can be well in the hour drive it takes you to get home and pop some oxy DO IT DO IT!!!"

[Ludakris]

I rad that the people get paid to do the show and most likely free treatment, that can be the only way Jeff Conaway does the show, he can't possibly have any money, and if there was a guy who didn't want to get clean it is him...on this season he keeps trying to have another surgery so he can have pain meds....

As for the first season I remember one time I was kicking and watching and it was the episode when Jeff was trying to leave AGAIN..anyways I kept thinking to myself "Jesus man, you can be well in the hour drive it takes you to get home and pop some oxy DO IT DO IT!!!"


you are absolutely correct that every one of those people are getting paid to be on that show, and they are not paying for rehab services. VH1 Picks up the tab at the recovery center, and just like any other show, the "celeb's" agent negotiates the money and their publicist negotiates some of the stipulations of the patient/celebrity for them to appear.

Now, the thing I wonder about is not that "Shifty" has re-appeared, I would like to know if it really was as random as it seems or if his publicist had already made arrangements for him to come back and they just stage the rest of it...

I'm not so sure that Conaway is wanting another surgery just to get meds, or if part of his addiction is an addiction to surgery. It would seem that he would have no problem getting massive amounts of pills in the condition he is in now...

[marshalldylan1]

I missed last night's episode. I wanted to see Seth smoking crack on the roof but they cut it right at the end last week.

Damn, so what happened last night to anyone who caught it?

[blackdog]

who cares? heheh no offense jus my knee jerk reaction to that shit, how ever if im channel surfin i'll leave it on fer a few ta see what stupid ass shit is going on......everyone slows down to look at a bad wreck i suppose and maybe thats what pisses me off .......dont worrie ill get over it.
and trust me i aint alway such a prick its just that i'm having a bad time what with a birthday and a court date all in the same week....who cares!! anyone? hehh:rolleyes:
peace
dawg,

[chopstix]

Exactly, it's like rubbernecking a car-wreck..

You people need to shoot your fuckin' television's, and spend MORE time online, damnit.

[halfalien_s4]

I thought for sure there would be a thread on this but I didn't see one. Hope I'm not overlooking it!

Is anyone watch this show? I'm not quite as into it as I was last time but I was also in the middle of a kick when the first season was on so it felt more relevant in a way.

I cannot remember which woman it was, but in the first episode she was showing off her pill collection and she took a tiny bit of sub, put it in her mouth and proclaimed it was as strong as heroin. She made it seem like some incredibly powerful high. I'm always surprised when no one bothers to correct false information like this, especially since it is a show about drugs.

Gary Busey is always good a laugh although he makes me incredibly uncomfortable. If I was stuck with him in treatment I'd have to use just to get through the day.




dude. i Just watched the very first ep of this show online after readiong all ya'll had to say about it. and i have mixed views. on 1 hand, it is interesting on the medical side and watching how these people "act", or "react". it does however remind me of saturday nite smackdown wrestling on the sci-fi channel (gee....i wonder why its on *that* channel?), because of such poor actging a lot of times. and i also believe that part of its real, but i also believe part of its just completely fake. anyways thats my opinion of the show....

now, when it comes down to anything having to do with rehab &/or addiction, especially "addiction dctrs", i honestly & truely despise and hate anything having to do with any of it. i have to say i dont even believe in it, and havent for a long time. if/when others do, hey, i dont give a shit cuz everyones entitled 2 their opinion and whatg they beliveve. but i promise u and give my word ull never catch or hear of me even being associated w/ rehab or addiction dctrs. just as much as i diont belive in addiction. i do however belive ur body can become dependant on certain chemicals, but thats inevitable for most of us...especially people that r pain patients & the like.....:rolleyes:

[marshalldylan1]

I like the show because it's fucking hilarious.

At the end of the episode before last, some dude from a band was on like ecstacy, alcohol, and hiding up on the roof smoking crack. The episode ended right now, so I wanted to know what happened to the crackhead on the roof.

[bigNasty]

I like the show because it's fucking hilarious.

At the end of the episode before last, some dude from a band was on like ecstacy, alcohol, and hiding up on the roof smoking crack. The episode ended right now, so I wanted to know what happened to the crackhead on the roof.
He finished smoking his crack on the roof then he came down and got himself a room. But when they were emptying his pockets, they claim he swallowed a balloon of H. And the girl Shelly that works at the rehab place was craving when she saw him smoking crack cause she's an ex crack addict.

[halfalien_s4]

man...i think ive gotten kinda hooked on this show. ive been watching it all day since this morning on online tv. how crazy is that??:p

[The_Highwayman]

They are now doing a spin-off, so to speak following them to the Sober living house..Steven Adler gets caught with tar and needles...that was in the preview...

The thing I don't like about the show is how the built up the nexy episode and it is always something totally different...I remember in the first season, they would say in voice-over "They will go through painful withdrawal" and show a girl puking, only for it to be a girl in her video of how she was puking from mixing vicodin and alcohol..this season, for the preview where they go to Shifty's room to see him as Dr. Drew knocks on the door, you hear sound bite of Shifty saying "I'm on heroin" and that never was actually said by him on the actual episode, I think they DO try to demonize heroin and oxy's more so than other drugs, and they dramatize the amount that people take or used to get viewers to tune in to say "Oh My God!! They use HEROIN!!!"