So the self-glorifying misery starts again. The new season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Read the full post.
Jan 8
2010
09:40 AM ET
'Celebrity Rehab' season premiere: 'Someone calls me a whore, it's a compliment'
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After reading all of your comments and listening to people who give an opinion with no merit. I myself suffer from serious addiction to painkillers all prescribed by a licensed physician do to a car accident which left me bedridden for over a year lucky to save a foot,i suffer from severe pain from knee back hip and this latest injury,this show gives me insight without seeking help from outside sources do to my own denials and public profession. I say thumbs up for Dr Drew and VH1 love it or hate it. You all watch it, so what’s the difference when it comes to tv ratings !!!!
Shakesome:”If someone offers you suboxone, walk away.” Yeah, walk away then continue to use opiates. Do you have any experience with Suboxone? Are you a medical professional? or a former opiate addict? Well, I am. I was on Opiates for 8 years of my life, my whole life was dedicated to feeding my habit, my monster. I did something I swore I would never do a thousand times, cheat, lie, steal and shoot myself up. I have now been on suboxone since August and I can safely say It has changed my life. I think differently now and find happiness in life, instead of finding happiness in a pill bottle or watching blood mix so elegantly and beautifully with heroin in my syringe, my slow death. I started off on 24 MG, 3 pills and now am down to eight MG, 1 pill. I know what it feels like to be a real person again and don’t have an ever dark, consuming cloud floating over my head. Just because some stupid fucking talking head celebrity says something you are right there to suck the knowledge right out of his dick. Do you have any idea how stupid you sound? I can say suboxone has saved my life. I see my doctor every two weeks and have started attending NA meetings. More people die from asprin every year then from suboxone. Only the negative gets highlighted in such a positive thing that is working for so many people.Suboxone,along with close doctor monitoring, and a support system has been proven time and time again that it is more effective then just the cold, barbaric way of “cold turkey.” Opiates change your brain chemistry forever, dopamine is no longer manufactured the normal way. A beautiful day is no longer beautiful, seeing a long distance family member is no longer exciting and life in itself is dull. The same people who point there fingers at suboxone are probably drinking a glass of wine, or enjoying a nice artery clogging steak. So people, just know that with everything, there is a negative to suboxone but the positives out-weigh it so much and have you have a chemical dependency problem I urge you to find a mental health professional and get on a closely monitored regime and I promise you that you will not regret it.
In my experience – not as a rich & famous person – but a “regular” person, every drug & alcohol counselor I have ever met seems has ego issues. So Dr Drew is not so different in regard. Many people I have known have recognized this as well. I used to call them”Ex-Drunks on a power trip”. For example, “You are wrong, I am right EVERY TIME.” I did meet a highly regarded counselor whom I immediately respected that said, “Drug & alcohol treatment is in its “caveman days”. One day we will know better how to better treat it. But today we do what we know.” You should have seen the Egomaniacs cringe! Anyone have any thoughts on why the ego trip?
In my experience – not as a rich & famous person – but a “regular” person, every drug & alcohol counselor I have ever met seems has ego issues. So Dr Drew is not so different in regard. Many people I have known have recognized this as well. I used to call them”Ex-Drunks on a power trip”. For example, “You are wrong, I am right EVERY TIME.” I did meet a highly regarded counselor whom I immediately respected that said, “Drug & alcohol treatment is in its “caveman days”. One day we will know better how to better treat it. But today we do what we know.” You should have seen the Egomaniacs cringe! Anyone have any thoughts on why the ego trip?
I have mixed feelings about this series. On one hand I don’t think it’s a good idea to put people who are addicted to attention in a situation like this. They are probably drug and alcohol addicts because they got used to a certain level of stardom and they couldn’t cope when it was over or they couldn’t handle the pressures of stardom. The last thing they need is to be in front of the camera when they need to learn how to live without stardom. As for Dr. Drew I find his treatment of Tom Sizemore’s girlfriend to be unfair when he’s up under Heidi and they have a violent history, and Jeff Conoway got to be with his girlfriend. On the other hand, people like Brigitte Nielsen and Rodney King have gotten sober so
at least that’s something. But like some of the other posters have mentioned, it’s definitely not like real rehab.
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burkett
Sun 01/10/10 7:37 AM
It is blatant hate-mongering and should not be posted.
Dr. Drew may be a doctor, but he is endangering his patients with his so called “Knowledge concerning opiate addiction. First off he had the nerve to tell Mike that Methadone “takes away your soul” Well I am here to say that I have been addicted to opiates since I was 14, and heroin since my early 20′s, and if it wern’t for methadone, I have no doubt that I would be dead today. I did try the total abstinant 12 step BS. I did everything I was supposed to do, but for years I wanted to die, and I had no idea that I was suffering from PAWS, Post addiction withdrawls. Some people never get PAWS, I had it for years..I relapsed after dental surgery, and for the first time in years I felt normal. I tried and tried to get clean again, but after awhile I couldn’t take it, I tried to kill myself. I need opiated in my system, without them I want to die, my brain has been changed by decades of opiate addiction. Suboxone was just a trial drug when I tried it. I was in a case study, and started it in Nov 2000. Unfortunatly, suboxone didn’t work for me, it made me sick for 3 straight weeks. In Jan of 2001 I got on methadone maintenace and this time I stuck with it, and I have been free from heroin since July 2002. I have a normal life today, I want to live. I have a wonderful husband, a nice home and we do normal things today. We travel go to movies, out to dinner. These were things I never wanted to do because I was so depressed from having PAWS. For a so called expert to say that Metadone takes my soul, is not only being ignorant, it is hurting a lot of people. Methadone isn’t for everyone, and it is not to be taken lightly, it is a long term commitment, not for short term,. I am 55 years old, and I tried everything before deciding to get on methadone. The only regret I have is Why I listened to my doctor in 1982 when he said methadone was swiching one drug for another. I lost a lot of years because of him and the 12 step program. Drew also told Kari Ann that she had to stop taking adderal for her ADAD..That is boaderline negligence. He evidently knows nothing about this condition or he wouldn’t have forced her off.It is proven that when addicts who suffer ADD usually abuse drugs, and when their condition is treated the RIGHT WAY, they stop abusing other drugs. He also took Heidi off of Suboxone..Dr Drew is a Malpractice suit waiting to happen. I just hope no one dies because of his negligence..
Not only is Fleiss (the alleged victim of abuse) in this rehab farce, but so is the alleged perpetrator (Sizemore). Now they are attempting to bring in his girlfriend for treatment and when Sizemore asked about the cost, Drew waived the fee. This is absolutely not done, victims and perpetrators are not put together. No self respecting institution would ever do this. I think the show is a farce, the actors are paid plenty and Drew needs a review of his professional behaviour by a ethic review board.
Man heide is so in love with Tom it’s ridiculis. He seems to have the biggest heart of them all. And he has just now start letting his buttons be pushed by people, starting with ugly ass heidi fliess..wtf bitch just cause he don’t want that ugly ass she has to treat him like shit. I can’t stand that dumb whore..i could go on and on about that ugly c****.
I agree no rehab would have heidi and tom 2gether, its all about the drama an ratings. It is also foolish not 2 offer these pts suboxone, I found it to b excellent after 30yrs of opiate use. It may have a downside at 1 point, I have been on it for 3 mths an it is the best decision I ever made. I have a life now, I am happy, I get out of the bed an my days aren’t consumed with looking for something, being aggitated with everyone around me, an being consumed with deppression. Shame on Dr. Drew with this cold turkey mess, it is inhumane an cruel. But, drama brings in the ratings, think about it.
Suboxone is a highly effective safe medication for the treatment of opiate addiction. It is fully accepted in the medical community and has proven very effective in aiding patients in thier recovery. It is NOT a drug of abuse and has no “euphoric effect.” It the first opiate addiction treatment breakthrough in decades and represents great promise for many recovering opiate addicts. Despite this I have heard Dr. Drew repeatedly state that suboxone is only a tapper drug and to only be used short term; during actual withdrawal. I also see that he has Mike Starr withdrawing from suboxone despite still going through Methadone withdrwal; which is horrendously painful. Dr. Drew’s practice is alarming and casue for great concern if not outright alarm. It is the equvalent of using 50 or 100 year old medical techniques to treat cancer: it is ineffective and often inhumane. The rate of relapse for opiate addicts is veru high. (80%)Without suboxone it is much higher. Sadly, in the end, it is Dr. Drew’s patients who will suffer his aversion to adhering to up to date proven medical protocol on the use of suboxone.
I generally don’t like reality shows, I think they are phony & a set up, promoting 15 min of fame “stars”. I did watch Dr. Drew, however, I was curious to see what happens to people who become addicted to substance abuse. In my own life, I have been in precarious situations, during to painful life altering injuries, off & on since I was a teen, I am not retirement age. All that time I have been perscribed addicting drugs, from Vicotin to Duragiesic, Ativan & Valium all at the same time to mention only a few, this was prolonged for enough time to make me addicted, if I chose to be. Pain killers were not a problem for me to secure, due to my vocational walk in life. I had no support system, no family, close friends, only my pet for company & encouragement. I even remember a sibling introducing me to Cocaine on my first excursion to Ca. I didn’t like it, & chuckle when I think of just a few years prior to that, the same sibling chastized me for occasionaly taking a “toke” of pot with some college age friends. I didn’t really care much for that either as I was & still am a non-smoker. Who knows if I were not the geek outsider, the uncool, or wanted to party instead of focusing on career what would have become of me. Perhaps by eliminating outside influence, & staying alone was my survival. I am still in a wheelchair after a dozen years, my career in over, my pockets are empty, the pet is dead, & I still have no support system, & can still obtain pain killing opiate drugs, but also use them sparingly, always aware that I could use them as a crutch, but I don’t. Dr. Drew’s show is a reminder of what can happen if you let it. All of these people had a certain amount of priviledge & recognition, well compensated for their notoriaty in their fields, but they also allowed other people to influence them to what was hot & what wasn’t. They allowed this to happen until they got lost in the “cool” haze of drug & behaviour abuse, instead of focusing on the real person inside themselves, & dealing with their personal demons.
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