I kept waiting to write this over the weekend to see if we would eventually get photos of Lindsay Lohan at Coachella. We did not! You can see a photo of her here at Coachella – she’s with her brother Cody, she’s wearing a belly shirt (she’s got a slight muffin top) and her lips are back to looking super-jacked. Meanwhile, I’m just including some photos from last week in this post. I hope you aren’t too disappointed!
So, you know how Lindsay made her rehab arrangement specifically so she could spend a week at Coachella with all her best drugs friends enablers? You know how her rehab is basically, like, a Hamptons spa. But this rehab/spa might be slightly hardcore, at least more so than the last half-dozen Lindsay has visited. This one has a hardcore security system (we’ll see) and TMZ says that this rehab isn’t down with Lindsay’s Adderall thing. Next they’ll try to take her cocaine!!!!
Lindsay Lohan may leave rehab as fast as she arrives, if they dare try and take her precious Adderall away … and we’ve learned that’s exactly what the facility plans to do.
TMZ broke the story … Lindsay will do her 90 days of rehab at the Seafield Center in Westhampton Beach, NY. An official source at the Center tells TMZ although they allow people to take drugs prescribed by a doctor, they are suspicious of Adderall because of its many abuses — lots of people say they take it for ADHD, when they’re really using it for weight loss and getting high.
We’re told Seafield tries to ween patients off Adderall and give them other, less addictive meds for ADHD.
As for Lindsay — who’s been a hard-core Adderall user for years — she’s telling friends she absolutely refuses to take an Adderall substitute. She says she’s tried other meds and Adderall is the only Rx that works for her.
Bottom line — Lindsay has said many times she’s not going to stay in a facility that doesn’t allow her to take her Adderall, and when she finds out Seafield wants her off of it … she’s outta there.
Can you imagine the situation if Lindsay was just some crackhead without any kind of fame? Can you imagine if just a run-of-the-mill addict/alcoholic was putting up this kind of fight about her Adderall after YEARS of legal shenanigans, the endangerment of pedestrians and other drivers, after multiple assaults and damage to private property, after crack heists and crack shenanigans… after all that, and she’s still acting like the legal system OWES HER. She’s still acting like the world owes her. She’s still acting like she’s a shot-caller. And the worst part about this is that I bet the rehab caves and lets her take Adderall (with a vodka and cocaine chaser).
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Pacific Coast News.
I am disappointed. I was waiting for new cracky pics too!!
When you dont have ADHD snorting and popping Adderal can give you a high like cocaine. And withdrawal from it is horrible. Obviously, Adderal is one root of her issues. It’s completely ludacris to me that the rehab people will allow her to stay on these meds. Which I am betting they will. Maybe now that she has Coachella out of her system she will prefer to go to jail for a day or two…
There’s always next weekend!
Well, Lindsay as you have proven in the past, you know what is best. If those professionals won’t let you take your drugs into rehab, by all means don’t go. After all you are in charge. Fool.
This! Best comment ever. Predict an arrest warrant from Cali is in her future! Ding ding ding!
Totally
If adderall is a legal prescribed drug, why
are they trying to take it away from her? Also, they don’t want her to smoke cigarettes. She will NOT make it without them very long. That rehab place is setting her up for failure from day one.
Because it can be and is abused by addicts and smoking is seen as a crutch to be taught to live without when you are in rehab anyway. Different places have different policies about ciggys but not about adderall which you can also sell to other addicts in rehab. Morphine can be prescribed and that is very different from adderall but something being legal, like alcohol, does not make it okay to take at any legitimate rehab.
Some years back, part of her enforced rehab stay was at UCLA medical centre [i think] where they put her through a battery of tests and concluded that she didn’t have any medical problems.
She is addicted to Adderrall. simple as that. ditto other drugs and alcohol.
3months is long enough to wean her off the drugs and alcohol though possibly not the cravings. she would need a much longer stay for the cravings to subside. And she would always be in danger of relapsing.
Please, any chemical, drug or jewellery the Cracken has on her person is virtually guaranteed to have arrived there through *illegal* channels.
It’s SO EASY to get a legal prescription of Adderall and abuse it. Who knows if she really even needs it?
Any addict truly interested in getting well would take this opportunity to be weaned off everything (with available treatment for withdrawals), fully reevaluated, and develop new life skills and coping habits. ADHD diagnosis remains controversial. Yes many need treatment and medication but it is also a dangerously overused label. Any opportunity to not need pills should be welcomed. Remember, Anna Nicole Smith and Heath Ledger were both on legal prescription drugs. This is basically more Lilo nonsense.
Besides if adderal was supposed to improve the Cracken’s concentration and behavior? Ummm, it’s not working!
Besides if adderal was supposed to improve the Cracken’s concentration and behavior? Ummm, it’s not working!
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LOL!!
Setting her up for failure?
Can I get a “bitch, please…”?
Her whole GD life is a failure. She has set herself up for every failure in her life. Don’t blame (what sounds like) the FIRST AND ONLY entity that actually might hold her accountable for her actions.
Bitch, please! 🙂 Like she needs anyone’s help setting herself up for failure!
How do we know she didn’t choose this rehab spa in The Hamptons specifically because she KNEW they wouldn’t let her have her (illegally prescribed/obtained) Adderall & ciggies, thus trying to buy herself more time to party?
(Yeah, I’m a jaded bitch, but when it comes to The Cracken, ain’t no reason not to be.)
@ Doofus: I was talking about specifically about Adderall and cigarettes which both are legal drugs. The rehab center should focus on helping Lindsey quit cocaine, meth, alcohol and any other substances like those. You just cannot ask someone who smokes cigarettes to quit cold turkey because it is too cruel. I live with a smoker and he has tried to quit so many times and he has failed miserably. And no one is saying that Lindsey’s mess of a life can be blamed on anybody but herself except her parents.
@ elceibeno Plenty of people have successfully quit smoking going cold turkey. There’s nothing cruel about it. Lindsey’s problem is that she doesn’t want to quit cigs (although that’s her prerogative since they’re legal), adderall, booze, or coke. This rehab will fail as miserably as the others because she’ll go back to her old ways once she’s out.
Many years ago I worked for an attorney who had tried about a billion times to quit smoking, and each time he failed. Then he quit cold turkey, and never smoked again until he died. So it does work.
My father quit smoking cold turkey in his mid-20s. His father (also a smoker) was hospitalized and near death from emphysema at the time. It was hard to stop, but seeing the long term effects helped him win the battle. He left the hospital vowing never to smoke again, and hasn’t in 40 plus years.
The only way I was able to quit smoking was cold turkey.
Ditto here, tried to quit smoking many times. Was only successful when I went cold turkey. It did suck, and I wanted one for a long time (still do sometimes, and it’s been 6+ years), but I did it…
@ original bellaluna I was thinking about u today & here ya are have missed reading your comments
Sugar – Thank you! 🙂 Yup, here I am!
Adderall is a controlled substance. It is extremely addictive. You could go to rehab for an Adderall addiction. Lindsay is addicted to it and this is exactly why she shouldn’t be allowed to have it. I wouldn’t trust a rehab center that allows her to dictate the rules.
From drugs.com:
WARNING
Adderall is an amphetamine. Amphetamines have a high potential for abuse. They should be tried only for patients where all alternative therapy has been ineffective. Long term use can cause addiction and must be avoided. Dextroamphetamine sulfate (Adderall) is a Schedule II controlled substance.
I didn’t know about Adderall, darn! What doctor has prescribed it to Lindsey and for how long? Doctor should be prosecuted.
I was wondering who the hell gave her
that sh*t,,,they must be on crack, also
Do you know anything about Adderall? It is hardcore and easily abused. I doubt Lindsey actually needs it. The rehab centre isn’t setting her up for failure, they’re trying to, you know, rehabilitate her.
Got it! Adderall should be banned then. Excuse my ignorance,I didn’t know.
I don’t think it should be banned for everyone. I’m on it, and at the lowest dose. I can stop taking it occasionally with no withdrawal problems.
Lindsay sets herself up for failure quite nicely. Saying she won’t go if she can’t have her Adderall is like an alcoholic saying they’ll quit everything except beer. Beer is still alcohol, Adderall is still a substance of abuse.
God, you are just so right on with that statement!
I remember a few years ago my husband dragged home a new friend who turned out to be a serious addict and alcoholic. In spite of it all we wound up becoming friends. I remember after one of his stints in rehab him telling me all about how he was clean now…no drugs, no booze. All he did was drink beer.
I wanted to hit my head against the wall when he said that.
The only reason I have a teeny, tiny microscopic glimmer of hope for the Kracken is because my friend, who was as bad as her if not even worse, did many stints in rehab-some voluntary, some not. But he actually did get clean. That was several years ago and he wound up going back to college, is now a literature professor and married and has a baby. He really turned himself around. I hope that she can too, before it’s too late.
Elceibeno – Even when Adderall is LEGALLY prescribed and MEDICALLY NECESSARY, it is still a highly addictive, highly abused medication. (think narcotic pain meds)
It is notoriously easy to “doctor/pharmacy shop” in LA & Hollywood (see: Brittany Murphy & her husband; et al) and obtain whatever you want, and because many of these “famous” types can afford it, they do.
As far as the cigs, the US has some very restrictive laws about smoking, so that could be why. It could also be that they don’t want her substituting one addiction for another (or in her case, one more addiction for her many others).
As far as her failure, she’s been one for quite some time now, and she’s got no one to thank but herself and the law enforcement & court system too star-struck to enforce their own system.
p.s. Rumour has it Blohan’s “ADHD” started when her and SamRo’s “thin-off” started, thus her need for said Adderall.
I totally take back my original statement about Adderall. Thanks for enlightening me. Quitting cigarettes is still very very very hard to do though. Lindsey will go psycho in that rehab center in just a few days without cigs.
@elcei, Drug withdrawal is incredibly dangerous. There are some classes of drugs (which Lindsey likely uses) that should only be discontinued under the strict supervision of medical professionals because the withdrawal can be deadly. Cigarette withdrawal is unpleasant, I’m sure, but it’s not going to kill anybody.
Elceibeno: Bet they give her a patch or something to help her with cig withdrawal.
Georgina (I totally wanted to be named Georgina as a kid!): Alcohol withdrawl can kill you. So it’s good she’s going to be supervised on that.
Adderall is extremely beneficial to some people, but there are less addicting drugs that can work just as well. I have one patient on Adderall and she is very carefully monitored for side effects and overuse.
@Blu–I sort of just lumped alcohol in with all the other drugs Lilo’s got in her system. And I would have traded Georgina for just about ANY name growing up. Even now I think it’s a bit fussy.
No cruelty,she chose her own consequences and in that I would say she truly is her own worst enemy. And she doesn’t get to change the rules to suit her whims. Also, physiological withdrawal from tobacco is actually a handful of days and she will likely be on sedation drugs during the adjustment period. People in jail don’t get such luxuries, and they deal.
Predict arrest warrant out of Cali!
@ elceibeno08
Of the many different substances swirling around in that girl’s blood, cigarettes are the least of her ‘oh this is going to suck’ withdrawal worries.
I’ve been there and done that with cigarettes and alcohol – twice (relapse after years of clean living also sucks).
She’s already psycho and she will absolutely survive the initial pain of having her smokey treats taken away. Now, her sea jasper…that I’m not so sure about.
I have a burning desire….to know what sea jasper is.
elceibeno – It’s Lohanese for coke or meth. (She was videotaped on a bench outside a restaurant when someone appeared with a ziploc baggy of some substance, which her former rep claimed was “Sea Jasper” and crystals. Because, you know, all the best new-age stores deliver to benches via ziploc baggies!) 😉
Nice to see that so many people have finally figured out this particular game.
It’s simple: people with addictive personalities should neither be prescribed nor take adderall.
If it’s really true nothing else works for her AND she truly has ADHD, then perhaps a note from her (hopefully not a Dr. Feelgood) Dr. would help in that. If an ADHD specialist has Lindsay on it for actual ADHD and she has tried and failed, then there might be some justification.
However, we all know that isn’t the case. UCLA said she doesn’t have any mental health problems, but I don’t know if ADHD is a mental health problem, technically. Paranormal Girl needs to be here!
But I do agree, an addict dictating to rehab what she will and won’t do is pretty funny. Is Lindsay aware that if she doesn’t comply, she’ll go to jail?
ADHD isn’t a mental health issue and it isn’t painful (like depression or anxiety). Most people with true ADHD only take their meds when they actually need them (like in classroom settings, studying for exams, at work).
In my opinion, there is absolutely no reason for the Cracken to need ADHD meds in rehab.
ADHD is one of the mental disorders. It’s divided into three types: ADHD-PI (inattention), ADHD-HI (hyperactive impulsive), and ADHD – C (a combo of the previous 2).
If I were her doctor, knowing that she is headed to re-hab without smoking privs, I would have her weaned off Adderall and placed on bupropion (Wellbutrin), which will help with both the ADHD and the smoking cessation. Bupropion will take longer to work, but she’ll be in a controlled environment.
I never realized wellbutrin was taken for adhd, just thought it was for depression
Yup, it is used for ADHD. It’s a norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitor (NDRI), which are used for depression, ADHD, narcolepsy, and Parkinson’s treatment.
I have ADD and don’t suffer when I don’t take medication (I forget a lot). Only my ability to concentrate and control impulsivity suffer. Btw, I take a small dose in a pill, I don’t snort tons of it like she does.
The naivety of this post is painful
I see the Scary Movie V poster in the last shot. I see Charlie’s face, but don’t see Lohan’s. Didn’t she even make the movie poster?
Then go sit in jail for 90 days.
If she refuses to go to rehab, then she should have to spend the full 90 days in jail.
That’s right, that is the only alternative for Crackie.
Is ADHD considered a mental disease, Paranormal Girl? Or is it considered something else?
My youngest son has ADHD and it is most definitely not a mental illness. It is a brain wiring/neurotransmitter issue.
I think of him as having an ‘old-style hunter-gatherer brain’. In fast moving situations, like on the rugby field (do or die combat in his mind!), he thinks incredibly fast and is amazing. In non fast and furious settings, like the classroom, he can’t keep up because he lives in a two minute time window. Things he was told two minutes ago are forgotten and can’t be applied to anything that is going to happen two minutes from now.
Not all ADHD sufferers are hyperactive. My baby has a form called ‘predominately inattentive’ and kids like him often fall through the cracks because they don’t act out and cause trouble. But because they always forget things and have poor impulse control, they are always IN trouble. We spent years trying everything from behavior modification to lists to reward systems to family counseling in case it was a psychological issue.
One day, I decided to really talk to him about how he felt inside when he got in trouble for the same things again and again. He sobbed and told me that when he is going about his day he ‘just can’t remember’ things he has been told sometimes hundreds of times. Then he will get in trouble and feel “so stupid” because he didn’t remember.
It was a light bulb moment. Whatever was happening really wasn’t in his control. We went to a pediatric neurologist and the tests are actually quite fascinating. And drugs like Ritalin are miracles when you really need them.
If you don’t need them, they have the opposite effect and simply act as speed.
Yes, it is a mental disorder. Mental disorder are generally defined by how a person acts, feels, or thinks. ADHD (hyperkinetic disorder) was first introduced in 1980, in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.” Due to the nature of being a mental disorder, the diagnosis is difficult.
I’m a graduate student taking adderall, and I can tell you that when it is taken correctly, you don’t feel anything. I don’t stay up all night. I don’t get the euphoric feelings, and I don’t pop it and study for ten hours straight. I take it to function in a manner that is within social norms.
It’s considered a mental disorder, not an illness. It’s also a neuro-behavioral disorder.
To expand on what Mich said: there are three different types of ADHD: ADHD-PI (predominantly inattentive), ADHD-HI (hyperactive impulsive), and ADHD-C (a combination of both). They are treated differently and ADHD-PI kids DO fall through the cracks because they just get accused of not paying attention, when the inattention is beyond their control.
@ari, I agree with how you feel when you take it, it’s so hard for me to understand people abusing it because it simply doesn’t affect me that way
what is up with her feet in that last pic? Her toes look all curled under
I think it’s called “hammertoe” which happens to a lot of women who wear high heels that shift weight to the ball of the foot and the toes. After years of heels, the toes can get weird looking.
Hammertoe at 26! Those are some f***ed up feet.
Its not like she has anything to DO which would require her taking it; and if she is always taking it, and her ‘work’ ability speaks for itself, she should NOT be ON it to begin with! Snitch cant show up to nohtin or remember no lines!
It’s a drug rehab and she is taking a drug even though it’s prescribed there seems to be a lot of reason to believe she isn’t taking it for ADHD. She does not make the rehab rules and she can not get any special treatment it’s unfair and not right. She doesn’t want to go to rehab go to jail where she won’t be able to take it there either! I was suprised how little we saw of her at coachella I guess her and her friends found a good place to hide.
What is with the “refusing”? It was rehab or JAIL, right?
Yes, indeedy. I look forward to the video of her being taken scratching and screaming out of there straight to jail, without passing “go”.
My question is will they let her have the Adderall in jail?
*Sigh.* Hamptons residents and visitors, try to stay off the roads this summer, if you can.
Cody is so grown up! I feel old now.
Adderall “works for her”??? What does it do for her, exactly? What is it that it helps her accomplish??
Weight loss and no need for much sleep.
She can mainline vodka and not pass out?
Sadly this is absolutely true. I used to take it to study and then when my department would go out and party together I was a goddamn tank at 5’8″ 110lbs. It gives almost a speedball effect.
She’s going to rehab. No one NEEDS ADHD meds (thought it sounds like they are still willing to have her on one, just not Adderall) in order to survive a 3 month vacation of sorts. Besides, she acts like she has a choice.
I see she is toting around her giant bottle of vodka at Coachella. Because of course!
While Lohan doesn’t need Adderall, I have to disagree that no one needs ADHD meds- My younger brother certainly needs them. He would have gotten himself kicked out of school without them, if not worse. Yes, ADHD is a label that is thrown around far to easily and people who don’t need to be medicated often are,but to say NO ONE needs it? Ridiculous.
I don’t think that’s what Lulu was trying to say. She meant that it would not be imperative to her functioning in the rehab facility. My husband takes Adderall and it is absolutely essential to him being able to focus at work, it has been an issue for him since he was a child. But, if he was on lockdown somewhere and could take it – the world wouldn’t end. It isn’t like blood pressure or heart medicine.
Hollz, I specifically said no one needs it for 3 months of drug rehab. Not no one needs every at all, for any reason.
I need it and take it (not Adderal, it’s too expensive) in order to focus in my day to day activities. But I am a contributing memeber to society and hold down a 40 hour a week plus job. If I was to take an extended vacay, I would probably be off of it most of the time.
If I went off it on an extended vacation, I may as well stay home, since I would be asleep for about 16+ hours a day
I hardly think Lindsay is worried about controlling ADD/ADHD with her Adderall, but instead about trying to go off of it. If she is abusing it, then she is likely taking (and has been for a long time) large amounts… much more than normal therapeutic doses, and will go through withdrawl symptoms. A rehab/detox facility is much better than jail… most facilities offer some treatment to ease symptoms. Jail would be cold-turkey, and no treatment for symptoms.
On a side note… as others have mentioned, Adderall is a very helpful and effective medicine for many people who have a legitimate need for it, and take it as prescribed. This is the case with many medicines… narcotic pain medications, benzodiazepines, etc. There is the potential for abuse, and addiction, but they are very effective and appropriate medications if taken as prescribed for legitimate use.
I also want to point out that there is a difference between a psychological addiction and a physical dependence. It is possible to be on a medication for a length of time and have the body develop a dependence resulting in withdrawl symptoms when the medication is stopped (especially suddenly), and yet not be psychological addicted to the medication. So for an addict (which most of us believe Lindsay to be), there are two issues. The physical dependence… which will result in nasty withdrawl symptoms when the medication is stopped. This can be managed somewhat in a detox facility, and while it would still be unpleasant, it is not the long-term problem. (Some medications are not only unpleasant to withdraw from, but can be dangerous… and should be supervised) Psychological addiction is what makes someone ‘an addict’, and is a long-term (often life-long) battle…. and the reason so many addicts relapse after leaving rehab… especially forced rehab. A facility can help a person get through detox, and offer counseling, coping strategies and skills, make sure a support system is in place, etc., but they can’t cure an addict, or force them to stay clean.
Sorry for the rambling.
Been reading this site for years with pleasure, never commented before, but I had to get this off my chest: ugliest shoes EVAH! Seriously, my eyes are bleeding, I can’t ‘unsee’ them.
LOL! I’ve commented before that I think Lohan stories have the highest rate of turning lurkers into participants here on CB.
Which shoes are hurting you? The hideous crotch-high boot thing going on in the first photo or the strange net things in the bottom photos?
OMG those net things. She looks like she has club feet.
Yeah I noticed the goat foot effect too, I’m surprised it’s not cloven.
Honestly, it isn’t really even fun to speculate anymore. They’ll either totally cave and give her the drug (likely) or they won’t, she’ll refuse to go and end up in jail for about three days because of overcrowding. At this point, she’s probably hoping for the latter. NO ONE is going to make her actually do the whole time in jail, and LOL that it could possibly considered a serious option.
That’s what I haven’t been able to understand this entire time. Why not cop to the jail time? She’s be out in what, four, five days? There was some other actor who had a longer sentence and was out in something like 48 hours recently (can’t remember & I’m too lazy to google it just this second). Sure, it’d be a rough couple of days, but then she’d be right back to using and abusing and wouldn’t have yet ANOTHER failed rehab attempt under her belt.
Cause she’s a wuss.
Cause she’s the Cracken because, of course. This whole legal fiasco could have gone bye bye long ago but not with Linds running the show. Hmmm, she’s taking her Rx surely we can’t pin her bad decision making on ADHD.
Who keeps giving her a prescription for this stuff? If she has been taking it for years? I don’t know what to say anymore… She will do whatever she pleases, why do the courts bother or waste their time?
My guess is she probably has a couple of shady doctors who don’t ask too many questions… or even one doctor (possibly somewhat legit, but still not asking too many questions) who gives her a valid rx for a reasonable amount of Adderall… and then she could purchase more from a dealer… or an assortment of other drugs to mix with the Adderall.
My guess is that she had the choice of either taking the 90 days on lockdown in comfy rehab (I.e., no passes and the police will be notified if she leaves) or getting a jail sentence of at least a year, maybe more. She had a lot of charges . Just the probation violation would have given her the remaining term in jail for grand theft, then consecutive sentences for lying to police, seriously reckless driving (she would probably be dead if her car had its engine in the front), obstruction (the police didn’t test her for drunkenness only because she said she wasn’t a passenger). My guess is that there were witnesses and medical observations that would have convinced a judge she was under the influence of something, since she apparently always is, even though her former lawyer skipperdeed to the hospital as fast as possible to shut down testing and questioning. Her “prescriptions” and the prescribing doctors would be carefully scrutinized and records compared to see how much she actually was taking. She was seriously toast, and the legal kid gloves were about to come off and it all would have been very public.They’ve seen her in court way too many times.In other words- a jail sentence, even with all the days off for good behavior and overcrowding, would have been around a real 90 days, not the in-and-out treatment she has had in the past. She served about a week and a half in jail once, and obviously didn’t like it. Once she realized she would really be spending 3 months or more in jail- she took the plea deal, and California doesn’t have to waste its resources housing the little scofflaw (rehab is on her dime). And she gets to detox in more comfort.
Why does this trick always have bruises all over her legs?
Rough clientele.
Alcohol abuse.
She’s pale and mostly Irish, like me. Vitamin C helps a lot (for me, 500 mg to 1000 mg per day), but before I discovered that – I would get huge bruises with no idea where they came from. My mother and her sister were the same. When I was in the hospital for three days, the IV and all the poking to draw blood repeatedly for useless tests (all I had was a UTI…) left both arms heavily bruised for weeks. It’s called capillary fragility and often occurs with similarly pale people. So she could just be getting bruised from mild impacts that other people wouldn’t get bruises from. She looks malnourished, so the effect would be enhanced. Of course, she also could be getting knocked around by guys who like it rough… Or just a clumsy drunk. But the explanation might be much simpler.
I have add. I refused to take adderall because it is addictive. I take vyvsnse which is a pro drug. It releases slowly over two hours. There is no surge of energy. It’s supposed to be completely non addictive, physically not necessarily mentally.
I took it as needed for a couple of months. I saw how I was able to change my behavior while on the medication. I saw what helped me and what worked for me. It’s like the medicine taught me, if that makes sense.
I haven’t taken it in well over a year. But it is there is I “need” it. It was super helpful.
This has nothing to do with that pathetic excuse for a human being, Lohag.
I am just sharing my experience for others with add.
Thanks for sharing. What I get from your comment is that there are other, non-addictive, medications that the rehab could give her instead of Adderall – IF she really has ADHD (which I highly doubt).
Thank you! I am going through a crisis and this may be a helpful part of the puzzle. Glad you are doing well!
Is it really addictive to everyone who takes it? I often don’t take it on weekends and the only issues I have are sleeping/eating more than I’d like. If I’m not doing something where I don’t feel I need it, I figure there’s no point in taking it.
For people with a legitimate need, who take the medication as prescribed, there is much less chance of addiction. The body may develop a dependency, which might result in some withdrawl symptoms (especially if the medicine is stopped suddenly, without a weaning period), but this is not the same thing as addiction.
There are many medications that can be abused or result in addiction… however these medicines are necessary and beneficial to many, many people. I’m not suggesting that NO ONE with a legitimate need gets addicted to medication… of course, this can and does happen. There are a large number of people who take ‘potentially addictive’ medications in order to function on a daily basis… and who are able to taper off the medication if necessary, without any addiction issues. If someone finds they are taking more medication, or taking it more often than prescribed, they should consult with their doctor. This might indicate the need to adjust a dosage or change medications to something that is more effective… or could indicate some addictive behavior that needs to be addressed. These are just my opinions of course(;
Vynase is also widely abused.
At this point, it’s grossly unfair to the other patients to have her present-on so many levels. And the workers should be issued stun guns and pepper spray for the inevitable attacks that will ensue. Jobs lost, lives ruined and on and on we go. Will be highlarious if staff puts this beast in her place, bodily retraints, all highjinks captured on camera. Sure they’re installing extra ones just to be safe. Jail really was the only viable option. End well, this won’t.
Yeah. Many years ago, I did the whole rehab thing and it is hard enough with no entitled, narcissistic trouble makers around.
Okay, fine. Then go rot in jail.
Please. FTLOG. Someone just throw her stupid ass in jail already. It’s to the point where I can’t even enjoy a good cracktini over her cracknanigans. I just keep praying she doesn’t kill some innocent bystander.
(Sorry, no caffeine this morning. And the cracknanigans just make me crankier.)
OMG, that is some funny sh*t right there.
No way will any rehab make special rules for her. That result in automatic and guaranteed successful lawsuits from any or all other patients who have EVER been there. And is most certainly in violation of the rehab’s insurance policies. Not happenin. Would be financial suicide, to say the least.
Move that liability insurance policy, I’m Lindsay Lohan!
THIS is what addiction without privilege really looks like: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnade/sets/72157627894114489/
Thank you for posting this! I saw this flickr set a while back and it deeply affected me. Addiction is a terrible affliction and destroys so many people. Seeing the sadness in the eyes of the addicts in Hunts Point is devastating.
So sad…but not always obvious. My dad was an alcoholic and you wouldn’t have known it by looking at him.
Sorry I’m being so combative today, it’s been one of those days….
I can’t even begin to imagine how detrimental it will be to patients who actually want help to have to be in rehab with this bitch. Seriously, her level of borderline and narcissism? The level of disruption will be ridiculous. It honestly isn’t fair to anyone else who might be in the facility at the time.
I actually feel kind of sorry for her. That rehab place looks like a total dump. I’ve always imagined celebrities in these really cushy chic places like the one Hank went to in ‘Californication.’
It’s not a dump by any means. It’s a rehab center, not a spa.
It can be a rehab center and still be attractive. That place is dump city.
She looks AWFUL in the Coachella pic. Crazy bruises on her legs still, disgusting horse hair, lips so fat it looks like someone punched her, and she definitely has a gut. Perfect example of a woman who stays thin by using drugs and not eating so she can consume all her calories through alcohol. She’s what they call fat/skinny.
Adderall improves concentration.
She’s going to be sitting in rehab for three months.
What the heck does she need to concentrate on in rehab?
Getting better
**laughing hysterically**
Given here track record, bet they will have to do staff assists, like with violent offenders in prisons. 2-4 staff minimum for witness (besides cameras), and protection. Draining time/resources away from other duties/patients. Ug, this fungus. It never ends. Here’s hoping they have some Buelah Ballbreaker types working there. Little miss attitude is gonna get her ass lined out for once.
I feel late to the party on this, but could someone please explain to me how she can still make these demands?
She’s delusional and living hand to mouth/nose while being the only bread winner and supporting her whole family. 1 of her “johns” just got busted and can’t support her anymore. She’s not an a-lister and barely gets work anymore. She’s been sentenced to a lockdown rehab and still can decide when she goes and what she can take while there.. am I missing something or does the whole world to bend over because she wills it so?
She’s white and famous.
Yes!
Not famous – infamous.
Wow. My son is ADD, and although he doesn’t take Adderall, he does take Concerta. He’s been on his meds for three years, and I do not give it to him on days when he doesn’t have school (weekends, holidays, field trip days, summer, etc..). This entire summer he will go without taking a single pill. He needs it to focus on school work, but he’s looking forward to the break. He doesn’t like taking them as much as I don’t like giving them to him.
As long as he doesn’t do anything that needs all his focus & concentration, he’s perfectly fine without them. He doesn’t change personalities when he’s on or off of them, and it doesn’t seem to benefit him in any way except for helping his focus. He hasn’t had an appetite change, he hasn’t had temper issues, he hasn’t had trouble sleeping… He still grabs his baseball bat & glove or football and runs outside to play with the neighborhood kids after school. Without him being in a classroom, as his mom, I see no difference in him on or off the pill.
I’m just basing it off him, but I don’t see the appeal of the meds? I know he doesn’t like taking them although he knows he needs to take them. His teacher will call and ask if he’s had them on the days I accidentally forget to give him a pill because his focus is so off. He goes from making 90s+ to failing grades because he can’t concentrate enough to finish taking the test. He’ll answer one or two questions, get distracted by the simplest of things, and not even think about answering the rest. :/ It’s something he needs at times, but he is perfectly fine when he doesn’t take them.
I’ve never been addicted to anything so maybe I’m just having trouble understanding. I’m just thankful my son doesn’t feel like he can’t go for periods of time without his medication. 🙂
My oldest son also takes Concerta (his father put him on it without telling me), and the different is like nightmare and day. He seems so drugged out on the stuff, it is frightening–just totally out of it. And his dad threatened to sue me if I tried to get him off of it during the summertime when he’s not in school and doesn’t need to “focus.” Sadly, my son also now believes he is “disabled” and every time he misbehaves, he blames it on his ‘ADHD’ (which was dx by a Dr. Feelgood in Beverly Hills). I’m glad you had a better experience.
That’s the thing about these drugs that so many people don’t understand. When you have actual ADHD, they calm the brain. If you don’t have ADHD, they have the opposite effect.
Being sluggish and mentally walking through water is no good though! Your child must be miserable and his father is absolutely wrong to make him live like that when there are other drug options and strengths!
Let him sue you. He won’t get anywhere. What you are describing is not an uncommon reaction and any responsible doctor (and parent!) would make a change.
That’s so horrible. I’m sorry you’re going through that. It doesn’t seem like a parent should be able to do that without consent from the other parent.
My son has only been on the lowest dosage of Concerta, and we’re fortunate it has worked without any changes these past few years. Our pedi wouldn’t diagnose him or prescribe our son meds without written letters from his teachers and a six hour evaluation and testing session with a behavioral therapist. Even still, he has to go in monthly for an EKG and answer questions before his prescription is refilled. We use a pedi that leans towards homeopathic treatments, and we went through several avenues before medication was prescribed. I’m also fortunate he supports me with taking him off because I’ve heard other doctors don’t like them to come off meds at anytime.
A pediatric neurologist diagnosed my son and also required mountains of paperwork – before she would see him and during the process of finding the right dosage.
ALL of his teachers had to be involved in the initial documentation and the reporting once he started the meds.
I live in South Africa and, by law, you have to get a new prescription for ADHD drugs from the doctor every month. His GP regularly asks him questions about how he is feeling even though he has now taken the Ritalin for three years.
In fairness to your son, I would get a second opinion from either a child psychiatrist or a pediatric neurologist. Make sure they ask him the questions, not you. His father will have a much harder time negating that kind of feedback.
My son also initially thought he was disabled. He eventually understood that he just has a warrior brain designed for action – not classrooms.
My heart goes out to you!
p.s. Concerta and ritalin are completely out of the system by the end of the day. As far as I am concerned, there is no point keeping my child on when he doesn’t need it. It isn’t like an antidepressant that needs to build up in your system for several weeks before you start seeing effects.
I am REALLY glad to hear that the stuff flushes out of the system daily. Personally, I do not believe that my son even has ADHD (and this is not denial, because believe me, I am on his behind trying to raise him up right and he seems perfectly capable of concentrating for hours on things that he is interested in, namely, sports,video games, and TV). Letting his dad go ahead and sue me is a non-starter, because dad is from a rich rich family, and is married to a wealthy LeAnn Rimes-ish woman, and I would be spending my son’s college fund for a David and Goliath fight. So I just do the best I can with the hand we’ve been dealt. The brainwashing program seems to be going splendidly, so who knows how long my son will even want to keep seeing me–with four other kids to think of, we’re fairly strict and therefore LESS FUN than regular trips to Disney and Universal.
And God forbid the kid take Adderall! He is skinny, skinny, skinny as it is — like most 13 year old boys. Skinnier than Lohan! And no double chin. : )
Concerta is actually out of your system in 2-4 days and Ritalin in about a day, depending on kidney functioning and general health. Ritalin SR and Ritalin LA can stay in your system longer even though the half-life of the med is the same because of their slow release delivery system.
(edited because an L is different from an S)
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My ‘baby’ turns 13 this week! It is so exciting!
Fun things like tv or video games are highly stimulating and not the right measure for judging ADHD brains. In fact, on those types of things, the child can over focus to the point that everything else ceases to exist.
The tests the doctor gave my son were task oriented and designed to assess his executive functioning. For example, he was given a picture of a basic line-drawn geometric shape and told to recreate it. In non-ADHD brains, the process will follow a some kind of logical, planned order – starting inside and working out, etc. In ADHD brains, there is no logic. Lines are drawn randomly. The end result is the same but the process (or lack there of) is different. Unfortunately, it is a level of ‘different’ that almost ensures difficulty in the modern classroom setting – and major self-esteem issues as a result.
A website called ‘the successful parent’ has an excellent description of the issue: www(dot)thesuccessfulparent(dot)com/add-adhd/understanding-adhd
Any excuse to check herself out of treatment. She’s working on her crack-cuses already. It’s not my fault I needed meds and cigs and booze and crack and vodka and and and……
She simply doesn’t want to go to treatment or jail. Maybe, just maybe, she’ll finally learn the law doesn’t give a damn what she wants.
I have a simple question – why is she being given a choice about this? I love how it’s phrased as she “refuses” to go? I thought this was an alternative to JAIL (or least the LA celebrity version of it). Astounding that a barely coherent, now d-list actress somehow has enough leverage to dictate which rehab facility she’ll attend in lieu of jail.
That’s a hell of a justice system they have out in LA.
Good, then she gets to go to jail.
This trick tells cops, judges and sheriffs what she is going to do. It should come as no surprise that she can tell Dr.’s what to do too.
She doesnt use it for ADHD! If she did she would be okay with other ADHD meds! She use it to get high and she is now addicted to it
I was thinking this am it makes perfect sense in a cracked out way the reason she appears so thin is she upped her dosage so when she checks info rehab that is what they will list on her intake meds & will continue her on that high dosage so she can still get her buzz on. like
I said it’s a crack theory but it’s all I got.