Holy shit. I had to google a bit before it all came together.
So beware when flipping channels, you might run across Sgt. Zack Allan, sobbing drunk in a wheelchair, while useless porn stars and pop tarts wave their goods at the camera.
I hope they all get better, but I doubt they will on tv.
I have never seen a reality show in my life, but I am transfixed by this one. I can’t wait till Jeff Conaway shits himself, for starters. And where does a guy without a job for twenty years, and the one hit wonder punk dude, get money for cocaine? And why can’t Mary Carey masturbate in rehab? And I understand they want diversity, but the black chick “addicted” to a non-addictive drug is a fucking joke- YOU CANNOT BE ADDICTED TO POT DR. DREW. We can’t take you seriously if you say its similar to heroin. And quit taking notes all serious like, you know this a trainwreck.
What they all NEED is a show that puts them in rehab for addiction to fame-whoring…
Edited to add: Them and every other Q-List washed-up celebrity that needs to go on Celebrity Rehab or The Surreal Life or 42nd Chance At Fame or whatever…
Sadly, for some of those folks, it’s an upward career move.
This is quite possibly the most sadistic thing I’ve ever seen on tv, besides late '80’s Japanese gameshows.
I haven’t been high in years, but now I want to get SO fucking out of my head. Huh. And I’m gonna watch the whole thing, damnit.
Yes you can. Your post is my cite, he’s a licensed physician.
The black chick is absolutely using this to get back into the mainstream after her porn stint. She obviously heard they were looking for people for this show and concocted her “addiction”. And please, why did they stop the subtitles for Conaway?
Clarification- not physically. Maybe mentally if you’re weak minded. Or you’re trying to find an excuse for bad choices. For him to compare it to a herion addiction, which is physically addictive to the point that the body breaks down and cannot function without it, is pretty damn unprofessional. Her mom’s concern for her had nothing to do with the drugs effects, except on her lungs. Bad Dr. Drew, bad. You may really really like getting high and really really don’t want to quit, but there’s a difference in not wanting to and can’t. I like Twinkies and don’t want to stop eating them, that doesn’t mean they are physically addictive.
Jeff Conaway sounds as though his brain in mush at this point. How can he still afford to drink and do drugs all of the time?
I know my post seemed snarky, it wasn’t meant to be. I’ll dig up a better cite later when I get home, but I tremendously disagree with blaming addiction on being “weak-minded”.
So, Bobby Wheeler is now Rev. Jim? 
It is my understanding that in order to put up subtitles, someone, somewhere, has to have some idea of what the person is saying.
As he rolled in, he reminded me of my 81 year old Grandfather in the nursing home with advanced Alzheimers. His girlfriend is so kind to hold the coke tube to his nose, that my friend, is love.
$2 says they find Mary mounted on Jeff before the 2nd episode.
The trailer for next week shows him going off on Baldwin with unbelivable clarity and focus- it looks like an entirely different person. The trailer also shows the punk guy in the swimming pool with a bunch of his homegirls and Dr Drew “pissed” about it- gee, shouldn’t you have someone at the front gate to prevent this? That is, if you are really trying to help them instead of trying to get ratings- can’t do both I guess.
And** bb2k**, no worries, I was calling someone “addicted” to pot weak-minded, not an addict of herion, etc.
And here’s a cite from a somewhat official site that shows marijuana to be the least addicitvie of the six drugs, less than caffeine even. I saw one with 20 drugs on it once in The People’s Almanac or Book of Lists and IIRC it was 19th out of 20, ahead of only aspirin or something. Lock Miss Pot Addict in a room for a week with all basic needs sans drugs, she’ll come out fine. Do the same for Conaway and if he’s not dead, he’ll be covered in piss, shit, blood, vomit, in a cold sweat, have tremors, seizures, etc.
Or just look at show- Conaway did drugs on the ride in and was babbling, incoherent, incontinent, couldn’t walk. The girl got high that morning and was fully functional. All the others on the home videos had moments where they were falling down and completley out of it. Her horror video- laughing it up on the couch.
IMDB shows that Conaway worked on six projects in 2006 and is listed for two projects in post-production for 2008. So apparently he got cleaned up enough somewhere along the line, before or after this show, to do more work.
Amazing- he’s had a pretty decent body of fringe work since Taxi- who knew? And per IMDB is an acting coach?
I haven’t seen this, but if you’d seen Conaway on Celebrity Fit Club, this wouldn’t come as such as surprise. He was really messed up then (in 2006).
The reason Mary isn’t allowed to have her ‘toys’ or masturbate while in rehab is that she’s trying to break free of her addiction to her life as a porn star, and showing off her toys and asking fellow addicts if they want to f**k is not really conducive to that. They of course can’t keep her from diddling the coin purse, but carrying around a 12" dildo and talking about it is a different issue.
Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, one of your 2003 California gubernatorial recall election candidates! Let’s hear it for her!
applause
And I would clap, but Ms. Carey wants to give that to you herself…
Which is a very unfair statement IMHO - psychological addiction is generally key with most drugs, including heroin, and I wouldn’t characterize it as “weak-minded” in any perjorative sense.
Barbituates can habituate you physically to the point that they will kill you if withdrawn suddenly. But they’re an extreme example. By contrast heroin, if you were to knock someone out for the duration of the withdrawal so the psychological effects didn’t magnify it, would just cause symptoms equivalent to a moderate cold. It’s the psychological stress that is the killer for it and most drugs.
Pot is about as benign a recreational drug as you can find, definitely more than alcohol in my experience. But it can still create addicts with worrisome issues from time to time. I’ve known a couple.
Sorry for the hijack.
If Conaway is in such bad shape, I don’t understand how he could even legally consent to be on a TV show.
I’m skeptical of this. Early last year I did a cold turkey withdrawal off of Oxycontin, an opiate similar to heroin, and I was told by my doctor that in doing so I had put my body at risk for seizure, stroke or heart attack, even with the Clonidine and Valium I was prescribed to sort of be in a coma throughout the withdrawal. I was taking 400 mgs a day and should have tapered off the dose over a month’s time.