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BILL: Dave, I was just reading about Corey Haim, the 1980s Hollywood teen idol. After 15
drug rehabs, dead at 38 of an enlarged heart and respiratory failure – a death usually
suffered by men in their 60s and 70s.
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DR. DAVE: The police found bottles of Vicodin, powerful muscle relaxants and
prescription tranquilizers[1]. At one point, his friends staged an intervention, It was part of Hamster? Gerbil? No, it's
his A & E Reality TV Show, "The Two Coreys." There was Haim, claiming to be clean and Snooki inside that ball!
then getting arrested for driving under the influence. But Bill, he died last March. Why
bring this up now? Reality TV 'star' practices for
tonight's ball drop (love the
BILL: The last major medical facility that tried to help him was the excellent UCLA plastic cup, Snooks!)
Medical Centre. But isn't that the same one Lindsay Lohan just "graduated" from?
Happy Stinkin' New Y ear:
DR. DAVE: In her case, with less than a month's recovery, she came up with a positive No trash pickup til Monday
urinalysis for both cocaine and amphetamines.
Garbage removal, street
BILL: Haim, like Lohan, was young, good looking and rich, surrounded by devoted sweeping still days away, says
friends. Same thing with Casey Johnson, with all her Johnson & Johnson millions, who NYC sanitation boss.
went around and around with drugs and died at 30. Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal's
son Redmond were booked on drug charges while out on a 24-hour pass from a rehab
Russell Brand likely in t he
program. With help from the best rehabs in the world, why couldn't they break their fatal
doghouse for t weeting
habit?
THIS pic
DR. DAVE: A great deal of medical data indicates that a stay in rehab is followed by The funnyman posted this photo
relapse about 80% of the time. "All the drugs of abuse cause chemical changes in the of wife Katy Perry with no make-
brain that make it increasingly difficult to get clean and sober," says Dr. Michael Jackson, up on and quickly deleted it.
medical director of the outpatient chemical dependency program at St. Vincent's Hospital.
"It's not an underlying weaknessF but actual changes in the brain." What is she 'do-ing?!
Kardashian sports braids
BILL: When I went through rehab, one of the patients was 67 years old. "What am I doing Reality TV starlet is
here with you drunks?" was her bitter joke. "I'm a nice little old Jewish grandmother. I photographed wearing tight
never had a drink in my life but when my daughter-in-law put some bourbon in my tea to cornrows. VOTE: Hot or not?
help me fight a cold, I was hooked. I could not stop."

DR. DAVE: Although genetic predisposition is a continuum from none to instantaneous, if The most notorious
you are on the wrong side of that biological line, you can become addicted almost Twitt er moment s of 2010
overnight. Demi Moore tweeting of pics
herself in a bikini was a
BILL: When you and I met, you were running one of the most prestigious rehabs in the milestone in stupidity.
world. How were you fighting this relapse problem?

DR. DAVE: Bill, your addiction didn't keep you from a successful career on Madison Ave. Mom, daughter accused of
Turn on your TV any Sunday to see that addiction doesn't stop anyone from developing molesting same teen boy
athletic skills. Peoples' bodies don't stop maturing during addiction. for 3 y ears
Police say the pair did it without
BILL: Didn't you once run a halfway house for nuns where you felt many residents had knowing about each other’s
grown closer to their God even while addicted? relationship with him.

DR. DAVE: What goes off track is social development. Dr. Jackson's "changes to the
brain" are, more specifically, changes to the emotional functioning of the brain. The
accurate flow of emotions and empathy back and forth between the addict and others
goes off track. Addicts like to joke about their stunted social skills— few are willing to
concede that socially, they are 9th or 10th Grader trapped in an adult identity.

BILL: And, since recovery relies on group support to jump start that development, that's
why you worked to build alumni groups, peer aftercare groups, and countless other
social systems—not just AA or NA.

DR. DAVE: Whether it's AA, secular groups like Rational Recovery or even a non-step
group like SMART groups—the key is groups.

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BILL: Esprit de corps—

DR. DAVE: From day one, our major measuring yardstick was how well did the addict get
along in NON-treatment groups. In the dining room, with the visiting alumni, or the
community outings. That's been the mark of success or failure in all the treatment
centers I have been affiliated with.

BILL: Reading Corey Haim's biography, it was clear that drugs kept him from going back
to restart his development with friends his own age.

DR. DAVE: When Lindsay went off on an extravagant Cannes vacation between rehabs,
my feeling was, there it was again – a dismissal of targeted aftercare, where
professionals and peers would help her "come of age" with the social development she
needs in recovery.

BILL: So your prognosis for her is--?

DR. DAVE: Bill, you tell me.

Dr. David Moore is a licensed psychologist and chemical dependency professional who is
a graduate school faculty memb er at Argosy University's Seattle Campus. Bill Manville is
a Book of the Month novelist; his most recent non-fiction work, "Cool, Hip & Sob er," is
availab le at online b ookstores. He teaches "Writing To Get Pub lished" for Temple
University.

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Orion2
6:29:01 AM Lindsay's Lohan has to accept the fact that she is an addict. If, she
Oct 8, 2010 doesn't it could be a long and slow death or one day she will be found
dead. She has to change her thinking. Stay away from
people(including family) who are leeches and develop over time self-
esteem. She has to go and stay in meetings and work a program of
complete recovery. Prognosis- this might take a miracle.
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Lou458
7:43:41 AM She has to want the help. Untill then, there's nothing anyone can do.
Oct 8, 2010 She knows what she's doing and this is her choice. I don't feel bad for
addicts who want to stay that way.

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GAILSNAIL
11:07:51 AM I agree with the 2 other posters, Lindsay has to accept the fact she's
Oct 8, 2010 an addict. You would think by now she would accept it. But, she keeps
getting bailed out. Jail was a joke. Rehab is a joke. Court was a joke.
She had "fu_k u" on her middle finger nail, pointed at the Judge. It's
only a matter of time before she kills someone, or herself. That's
when her parents will sue saying the courts weren't tough enough.
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