Comments on: Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab Study in Addiction

By: Jaimy

Jaimy — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:52:52 +0000

Dr Drew
July 4th, 2011 will be 7 years sobriety for me and for some reason it has gotten harder to deal with life.
There is so much anger and sadness that it is unbearable. There is a health issue involved which gave me the choice to live or die. Each year passes and my feelings don’t change.

The guests on your show should be happy that they have the money to sit around all day and not have to face the world. (by this i mean going to work, putting on a happy face and pretend everything great)

On a good note, I am glad all these people got the help but in all honesty life doesn’t get any easier.

Much love

By: Dawn J.

Dawn J. — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:08:59 +0000

Really great comments everyone. I know this post is a little dated but we recently covered this past season of Celebrity Rehab (and Janice Dickinsons’ Prescription Drug Addiction) on the Pat Moore Foundation blog. If you kept up with the show we’d love to hear your thoughts.

By: Tatiana V.

Tatiana V. — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:34:56 +0000

Public figures often crack under tremendous pressure they experience. Fame may bring many commodities, but like every other “blessing” – it comes with a double edge. The public often follows every move a celebrity makes and publicizes in detail each and every judgment error.

Being in the center of the public eye is not easy, and we should be aware that all people deserve to be taken care of – famous or not.

There is a way of breaking destructive patterns like drug and alcohol abuse and the right treatment in a timely manner can mean the difference between life and death.

By: zach

zach — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:08:00 +0000

celebrities have money. They can “buy” their addiction

By: lisa justin

lisa justin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:55:07 +0000

Thank you for what you do for people like myself!

By: ruth ann grishkat

ruth ann grishkat — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:12:54 +0000

I have been watching the show for awhile now and I know all about denial. My husband was an alcoholic (admitted) and played around with AA and was in rehab once. He was so tortured and in so much pain it became his decision to kill himself drinking. In his last days, he died in 6/09 of cirhosis of the liver, he said “I never thought it would get me.” He was only 66. Life was terrible for the both of us and for 3 months it was really hell. Please all of you who don’t think you have a problem remember alcoholism is the disease that tells you that you don’t have a disease. It was a terrible death, pain, swelling, brain damage, could not control bladder or bowels. Those you leave behind will still suffer from your disease and wonder if they could have done more. Please all of you, Dennis and Tom especially, believe this story, it really happened to a wonderful man, a career Marine, my husband, Otto Grishkat.

By: rehab

rehab — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:14:58 +0000

It seems that celebrities have more problems with addictions than normal people. Probably because of having too much money… Anyway, eveyone who has addiction problem has to get treated.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:40:52 +0000

I just wanted to point out that Heidi really needs to grow up and realize that just like Jeff, she too is an addict. She is no better than him, or any one else for that matter. Everyone has to face different challenges in life and has their own story to tell, it is possible that maybe Jeff has, in the long run, lost more than Heidi, but the fact that both in the same place means something. All addicts are addicts-a problem is a problem no matter how someone might look at it, it needs to be solved.