Given the popularity of MTV reality shows 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, this latest addition seems kind of inevitable. They’re going to air a special focusing on one the 16 and Pregnant girls who is pregnant for the second time and considering abortion. They’ll also talk to other teens who had abortions, with Dr. Drew Pinsky giving them his unique brand of superficial famewhore counseling.

After documenting dozens of teen mothers’ heart-wrenching stories via its hit 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom series, MTV will tackle the sensitive issue of abortion with a separate special called No Easy Decision, EW has learned exclusively. The special, airing Dec. 28 at 11:30 p.m., will follow one former 16 and Pregnant subject, Markai, as she wrestles with the decision after becoming pregnant for a second time. Dr. Drew Pinsky will also talk with young women who, like 27 percent of teens who end up with unplanned pregnancies, have chosen to end them. MTV sources say the documentary will tackle all sides of the issue, including the importance of contraception and the devastating effects of facing such a decision.

[From EW via ONTD]

My gut reaction to this is “no.” I’m pro-choice and it’s not about the abortion issue at all. I just feel that MTV should give these type of shows a rest. Yes they’re chronicling a very common phenomenon and attempting to make teen pregnancy into a teachable moment. At the same time, they’re creating young stars out of these mothers. Even if teen pregnancy, abortion, adoption and raising babies are shown as incredibly difficult and undesirable (and having watched Teen Mom I can say that they are portrayed that way), the very nature of these shows belies their supposed message. It’s like “don’t have unprotected sex” and “don’t get pregnant,” but if you do you have a chance of getting on MTV and becoming famous. This 16 year-old girl, Markai, earned a whole spinoff special by getting pregnant again. We’ve seen these girls on tabloid covers for the past year and now they’re pulling stunts to extend their fifteen minutes. This is about ratings for MTV, not about highlighting a social issue.

Here’s a 16 and Pregnant trailer for the most recent season. Markai fights with her boyfriend at around 1:20. She hits him and says “I hate you” [via Starcasm]. You can watch Markai’s 16 and Pregnant episode on MTV.com if you’re in the US.

Here’s my biggest problem with Dr. Drew: he’s a whore. Specifically, he whores out his medical degree and uses it as a cudgel to talk smack about celebrities. Now, I talk smack about celebrities too – we all do. You wouldn’t be here unless you talked smack about celebrities. If Dr. Drew was just some dude on the street, talking smack, he would be just another dude with an opinion. But Dr. Drew gives his opinions with the air of a “professional” and a “knowledgeable expert” on psychology and celebrity culture, granting interviews about the supposed diseases, addictions and disorders various celebrities “suffer” from by his armchair diagnosis. Also: he believes everything he reads in the tabloids, which is just weird. Like, it’s as if he reads some quote that In Touch Weekly’s unnamed source attributes to Angelina Jolie, and then Dr. Drew bases his entire “diagnosis” of Jolie on that quote. And don’t even get me started on how he whores himself out for fame and celebrity on Celebrity Rehab. It’s all… pretty disgusting. Anyway, Dr. Drew has given a new interview to The Huffington Post, and they ask him about various celebrities. His answers are horrible:

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are headed for an epic breakup. The recently-separated Eva Longoria has a classic case of love addiction. Miley Cyrus is acting out right now because of her parents’ divorce. And today’s laissez-faire attitude toward divorce is “bullshit.”

Yep, the doctor is definitely in.

Dr. Drew Pinsky, the long-time host of radio’s “Loveline” and of the VH1 shows “Celebrity Rehab,” “Sex Rehab,” and “Sober House” shared these and other revelations with us at Milk Studios in Hollywood last week, where he was shooting promos for his upcoming HLN talk show “Dr. Drew,” in which he’ll tackle these themes and many more nightly in-studio during prime time starting in the spring.

Below, some highlights:

On Brad and Angelina:
Just add up a couple things. There’s no such thing as ‘I was a heroin addict.’ That doesn’t exist in nature. Something is going on with [her] addiction. Or she’s in recovery. And I don’t see any evidence that’s the case. So we’ve got one person who’s a heroin addict. Which is a chronic lifelong condition, period. We have another person who has said things like, “Well, Jennifer [Aniston] was into long-term relationships, that’s just her way of looking at things.” I mean, that demeaning attitude towards other people’s emotions. Now put those two people together and you have got a really volatile situation. And they’re constantly creating things to weld themselves together. Which is only going to serve to make a more nuclear eruption. There will be some sort of meltdown that will be phenomenal when it does happen.

On Eva Longoria and Tony Parker’s split:
This guy is trying to have a marriage … and he starts acting out [sexually] like that? I don’t have to watch too many episodes of [VH1's "Basketball Wives"] to know what’s going on. Now, why didn’t Eva know about that? Talk about love addiction.

On the role of sex and love addiction in divorce:
Love addicts and sex addicts tend to go together. Love addicts are often people who were severely abandoned. And they tend to idealize people. It’s sort of romantic love gone pathological. The kind of person [they'll] idealize will necessarily be the kind of person who will abandon them. If that person suddenly comes around and forms a closeness, the love addict will sabotage the relationship.

On why maintaining marriages can be harder as a celebrity:
Relationships need a lot of care and attention. If you have two people disregarding the care and attention of the relationship, you’re going to have a problem. And then also add to that, they are being put on what are essentially sensory deprivation chambers–movie sets–and asked to evoke powerful feelings with attractive people. I mean, hello.

On why Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson didn’t last:
I don’t know what that was … I’ve known Ryan for a long time. He’s a nice guy. He seems like someone who should have a healthy relationship.

On why Miley Cyrus is acting out:
Can you imagine the pain that Miley is in? Her mom just had an affair. Her parents are breaking up … She’s in trouble right now. She’s manifesting signs of mental health problems, as well she should, right? It’s a teenager in trouble because of problems.

On Kelsey Grammer, who recently announced his engagement to his fourth wife:
I don’t know what to do with Kelsey. I need to know him a little better. But when you see serial re-marriers it’s usually more people of Larry King’s generation. And their thing was, they didn’t have sex unless they were married. I can’t make sense of it.

On why he can’t stand today’s lax attitude toward divorce:
We have gone through a 30-year period where terribly unhealthy things that contribute to unhappiness have been normalized as ‘just another choice,’ just another way of doing things, when in fact that’s bullshit. Divorce is an extremely unhappy, extremely stressful, extremely problematic thing. Thank god it’s an option for some people. But…it impacts people’s mental health. The least it does it create problems around intimacy until the fourth decade of life. It tends to normalize after that. But it takes people to their 30s or 40s to, under the best of situations, to expunge the experience. That’s a lot of suffering. And that’s often a lot of failed relationships and other failed relationships and more children exposed to divorce. The problem with divorce is that people consider it an option. You just shouldn’t consider it an option unless it’s absolutely necessary.

On why we find reading about divorce stories so fascinating:
Humans are interested in drama. Drama is not healthy people acting healthy. That’s boring. And divorces are dramas. Divorces are painful. Our attention goes to humans in pain, so that’s what that is.

[From Huffington Post]

Let’s see… okay, Angelina Brad has never said “Jennifer [Aniston] was into long-term relationships, that’s just her way of looking at things.” Also, Eva Longoria is not a “love addict,” she’s a famewhore who prioritized her celebrity over her marriage. And why does everything have to be an “addiction” anyway? Why can’t it just be “I’m not a sex addict, I was just dumb, and I like to bone beautiful women” and “It’s not love addiction, I’d just rather stay married to this person because the divorce would cost too much”? Oh, and Dr. Drew has known Ryan Reynolds for a long time? Riiight. And the insinuation is that ScarJo is to blame for the split, of course, not that Ryan is a massive tool. Of course. I could go on and on, but really, why are we still listening to Dr. Drew?

Last week, I saw the story that Julia Roberts’ older brother Eric Roberts had joined the “cast” of Celebrity Rehab, but I didn’t think that much of it. Honestly, I’ve heard the rumors about Eric and his addictions, and I thought it was just more of the same. But I was wrong! It turns out that Eric isn’t addicted to crack or heroin or even tequila… no, Eric likes the chronic. He’s been tweeting (he’s on Twitter?!?) about his addiction to medical marijuana:

Eric Roberts checked into ‘Celebrity Rehab’ last week. His wife, Eliza, told E! that he would be treated for his addiction to medical marijuana.

“Eric quit drugs and alcohol in 1995,” Eliza said. “He has no interest in anything, other than marijuana.”

Eric, who is Julia Roberts’ brother and Emma’s dad, reportedly has a prescription for marijuana to treat his anxiety but wants to kick his dependency on it.

“Tweating By Remote to answer y I’m doing CELEBRITY REHAB . It’s not 2 get people 2 stop asking y I’m doing Y&R as some have proposed. LOL,” he tweeted Tuesday.

Eric made his debut on ‘The Young and the Restless’ a couple of weeks ago. His next project: moving out of the weed garden and in with troubled roommate Jeremy London.

“I’d like to move out of the weed garden & into a place where things can blossom & grow. The people @ #CelebRehab have been fantastic 1 & all,” he tweeted.

[From HuffPo]

Maybe I’m not down with all of the hip stuff, but I’ve always doubted people’s claims that marijuana is addictive, or that a person can be a pot addict. I used to smoke up quite a bit (in my youth), and while I had some good times, I just didn’t understand how someone could be “addicted” to that feeling. Maybe I’m just close-minded about it. Or maybe Eric Roberts just likes to get high, and he’s not really “addicted”.

In other Celebrity Rehab news, Rachel Uchitel (“The Pillhead/Love Addict”) has already tried to quit the show because she found Dr. Drew to be too hardcore:

Rachel Uchitel told producers “I quit” and ran away from the set of Celebrity Rehab 4 — ditching the show for a swanky hotel after an intense day of filming drove her over the edge, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

“After a very intense day of filming, Rachel just couldn’t handle being at the Pasadena Recovery Center where Celebrity Rehab is filmed, and she decided to leave,” a source told us.

Tiger Woods’ former Number 1 mistress bolted for the swanky L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills, RadarOnline.com exclusively learned. Her escape from rehab was prompted by a very intense day with Dr. Drew, and Rachel had trouble coping with the issues that were discussed, according to the source.

As RadarOnline.com reported exclusively Rachel is being treated for a problem with alcohol and an addiction to pills. She was discussing her issues with self-esteem and self-worth, along with her addiction to pills when she went over the edge and bolted the set for the L’Ermitage Hotel. Rachel told Dr. Drew that and producers that she was quitting the show, and she left, the source told RadarOnline.com. Producers of Celebrity Rehab 4 located Uchitel and went to talk to her the next morning. “Producers arrived at the hotel the following morning, and calm prevailed. Rachel simply needed some time away from the intense pressure and scrutiny that she is dealing with.

“She agreed to go back to Celebrity Rehab 4. Rachel has never had to face these issues before, and talking about it pushed her over the edge, and her instinct was to run. Producers made her realize that if she continues to run away from her issues, she will never be able to live a healthy life,” a VH-1 insider tells us.

Rachel isn’t legally allowed to talk about Tiger Woods, but he looms large in her life.

“Her issues go beyond Tiger, but he was the catalyst that pushed her over the edge,” a source tells us.

As we previously reported, VH-1 execs are so impressed with the footage that has been shot so far that a push is being made for the show to premiere sooner than the scheduled October date.

[From Radar]

Sigh… I’m so glad I don’t watch this show, I really am. That being said, if Rachel does end up talking about Tiger Woods or David Boreanaz, I will gladly cover it. F-cking pillhead.

This is a promotional image for Robert Rodriguez’s new film Machete. I keep forgetting that Lindsay Lohan had a smaller part in it. Robert Rodriguez forgot too, because when he was cutting the trailer for the film, he forgot to include Lindsay! Oh well, at least she got to dress up like a nun and lick a big gun, right? I have to admit, the film looks pretty interesting. DeNiro!

In other Lindsay news, her stalker Dr. Drew Pinsky decided to give yet another interview about the state Lindsay is in. The last time he talked about Lindsay, he said that her parents should plant drugs in her car and call the cops on her. So of course Lindsay got into a blood feud with him, running to the press to call him a loser and avoiding him at all costs. Let’s see what Dr. Drew has to say as our resident Crackhead Expert:

Famed addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky is coming to the defense of Lindsay Lohan, saying the Mean Girls star should NOT be sent to jail. In an exclusive new interview with RadarOnline.com, Dr. Drew – who does not, nor has ever treated Lindsay – weighs in on her out-of-control spiral.

Dr. Drew tells us, “Jail will only harden her. I have in the past and I even would be willing to go in front of the judge, if Lindsay asked me to, and ask that she be placed in my care to begin a year long residential treatment, at the minimum. The judge ordered Lindsay to 90 days of treatment, and that just won’t be enough for her sadly.

As RadarOnline.com has previously reported, Lindsay took the powerful prescription drug Dilaudid for at least two weeks after she had her wisdom teeth removed, according to her probation report, which was released last week.

Dr. Drew added, “Lindsay shouldn’t have been prescribed Dilaudid, except with great caution and the participation of an addiction team. She is an addict with unstable active disease, and Dilaudid can only make that much worse.”

Pinsky goes on to say that Lindsay needs to be treated by a team of doctors, and not just one, because a united front is very important in treating an addict.

“I always treat patients with a team in place. I never treat addicts alone. As a doctor, you can’t get sucked into that person’s disease, and the disease is so very powerful. Lindsay needs to have a team of doctor’s treating her. It’s also why we send families to Al-Anon, so the family can stand with others so that the addict knows all on the same page.”

One of the other drugs that Lindsay tested positive for was Adderall, which Dr. Drew says is a pschyo-stimulant. “I have had lots of experience with Adderall. There seems to be problematic issues related to Adderall, addicts seem to do OK on Adderall short-term, but as time goes on, the drug becomes an issue. I think what we saw in court last week with Lindsay was related to issues she could be having with Adderall.”

Dr. Drew said all hope was not lost with LiLo, adding, “I have always said someday, she will make an amazing sober person. I have only wanted the best for her, and my only intention is to help and not harm her.”

[From Radar]

Yeah, I still want to see Lindsay go to jail. Sorry, Dr. Drew! But – as much as I agree with Dr. Drew’s general diagnosis of Lindsay, I can’t help but think he’s full of sh-t. It’s all fun and games for all of us to sit around and make fun of Lindsay for being a cracked-out a–hole, but it’s quite another for an actual mental health professional to pontificate on treating someone he has never met. You can tell Dr. Drew doesn’t really “get” the Lohans either – otherwise he wouldn’t even start talking about the whole family going to Al-Anon.

And beyond all that, who really thinks jail and rehab is going to cure Lindsay of being an entitled little a–hole? That’s the root of her problem, in my armchair diagnosis. Until she works that sh-t out of her cracked-out personality, she’s rather hopeless.

Machete image courtesy of Popoholic.

Does anyone else think that former “Pary of Five” actor Jeremy London’s story about being kidnapped and forced to drink and smoke crack is the biggest load of crap of all time? Despite huge holes and just plain ridiculous claims, London is sticking to his story – and riding the wave of new attention from the press. Radar Online is reporting that his bizarre tale has earned London a spot on the next season of VH1′s “Celebrity Rehab” – and a $40K payday.

Mallrats star Jeremy London, who was involved in a bizarre kidnapping where he was allegedly forced to smoke drugs, is checking into Celebrity Rehab, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

The 37-year-old has been the subject of sensational headlines since the incident on June 10. He claimed three men held him for hours, drove him around town, made him buy and give out beer and forced him to smoke drugs. RadarOnline.com reported exclusively that the same night he repeatedly and bizarrely tried to climb a tree at a hotel, abandoned his beat-up Land Rover and later tried to slap both his mother and twin brother with a restraining order, but it was denied.

London has a history of drug problems. In September 2009, he entered a rehab center for his addiction to prescription drugs. At the time of his bizarre alleged kidnapping, London was being randomly drug tested after losing custody of his son. His wife is Melissa is also being randomly drug tested.

But in March of this year, he insisted that he was sober. Now it appears that he’s fallen off the wagon and is ready to get some help from Dr. Drew Pinsky.

RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively that London will be checking into the Pasadena Recovery Center on either Sunday or Monday. A source close to London confirms, London’s wife will be taking Jeremy to the center and will visit him periodically. Melissa has been to rehab twice.

The two have a rocky marriage and have lost custody of their 3-year-old son, Lyrik. Jeremy was living in a rented house with Melissa, until recently when he was kicked out by her landlord.

RadarOnline.com has also learned that London will be paid $40,000 for his TV rehab experience.

Although London starred in Party of Five and 7th Heaven, he has fallen on hard times and the Celebrity Rehab payday will certainly come in handy.

London joins Tila Tequila, Jason Wheeler, Jason “Gummi Bear” Davis, Playboy Playmate Shauna Sand for Celebrity Rehab 4.

[From RadarOnline]

I’m conflicted. On the one hand, I’m kind of looking forward to Dr. Drew calling London out on his BS story on national television. Dr. Drew may be a douchey famewhore but he doesn’t suffer fools -or bad liars – gladly. On the other, offering an addict 40 grand and a change to be on TV isn’t the best motivation for him to clean up his act. How about if London cleans up privately and focuses on getting custody of his son back?

Oh, and I just had to share this ridiculous interview London did with People, in which he claims that his “acting skills” kept him alive.

Jeremy London’s alleged abduction by three armed men who then forced him to do drugs seems like a crazy story – and the former Party of Five star knows it.

“If I heard someone saying this, I would probably doubt it as well,” London, 37, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview.

But he insists it happened, and shares how he survived. “I was acting my way through the whole thing, telling myself, ‘Just play like you are one of them,’ ” he says.

As London tells it, on June 10 several men helped change his flat tire in Palm Springs, Calif., when they pulled a gun on him, drove him around for 12 hours while making him take ecstasy and smoke meth – then stole his car. A 26-year-old man has been arrested in the case.

At the time, London was in Palm Springs visiting his estranged wife, Melissa Cunningham, 39, and the couple’s 3-year-old son, Lyrik. As part of his fight to regain partial custody of Lyrik, the actor – a recovering addict – says he’s been sober since last September and has been undergoing regular urine tests.

“I haven’t tested dirty ever,” he says.

But London’s family members doubt his story. “After hearing Jeremy’s account of his alleged ordeal, it only brings up a million more questions about what really happened,” his twin brother Jason tells PEOPLE.

[From People]

This reminded me of that movie “Team America: World Police” (you know, the one with the puppets?). There’s a character named Gary who is a stage actor that is trained to be a CIA agent. He uses his “acting skills” to infiltrate a terrorist organization…with hilarious results. “Great acting skills, Gary!”

I’m making a prediction right now that we will see a tearful confession by Jeremy London on a major news show by the end of the summer in which he admits he faked the entire story. Who’s with me?

Jeremy on Dec. 3, 2009. Credit: WENN.

Back in April, Dr. Drew took Lindsay Lohan to task on Facebook, writing: “If she were my daughter, I would pack her car full with illegal substances, send her on her way, call the police, and make sure she was arrested. I would make sure she was not allowed to get out of jail. I would then go to the judge and make sure she was ordered to a minimum of a three year sobriety program.” He later attempted to clarify, telling Radar, “I absolutely wish no harm to her, but I just have a feeling that something awful is going to happen to her, like she is going to lose a limb.” Lindsay Lohan ran to the press immediately and pulled her “I’m just a poor, milkaholic child” act and said: “He’s a quack and a sell-out.” She’s said other sh-t about him too, and I kind of don’t blame her. I would avoid Dr. Drew too, and he’s never even tried to professionally diagnosis me from photos.

So, anyway, Dr. Drew and Lindsay were both in attendance at the MTV Movie Awards, and it looks like Dr. Drew wanted to apologize to Linds after their war of words. Lindsay wasn’t having it, though. According to Us Weekly, she changed her seat so she would be further away from him:

Lindsay Lohan avoided a run-in with Dr. Drew Pinsky Sunday at the MTV Movie Awards.

The 23-year-old actress — who wore a Pamella Roland beaded halter jumpsuit to hide her SCRAM anklet — was originally seated near the addiction specialist, who angered her after publicly speculating about her drug use. (“He’s such a loser,” she said in April. “He’s not a real doctor, he’s a celebrity doctor.”)

When she realized how close they’d be, she moved her seat.

Dr. Drew said he ended up going to the KROQ Weenie Roast concert in L.A. Saturday in hopes of seeing the actress. She ended up being a no-show.

“I was going to reach out to her and say hi and apologize if indeed I caused her any distress; that was never my intention,” he told The Dish Rag. “The stuff that seemed to get her most upset was things that I would say speculating what I would do if she was my daughter.”

[From Us Weekly]

Ugh, I just want to smack Dr. Drew. You don’t have to stalk the crackhead to apologize to her publicly. Write up a genuine-sounding press release and give it to the media. It’s that simple, drama queen. What bothers me is that Dr. Drew totally had a good point, you just had to look for it through the miles of bullsh-t, ego, and famewhoring. Lindsay was and is a mess, a disaster, and it’s obvious to everyone. But when Dr. Drew uses his “Doctor” title to diagnose someone, and to go out of his way to make the whole thing even more of a public spectacle, he becomes just as trashy as the Lohans of the world.

Header: Lindsay at the MTV Movie Awards on June 6, 2010. Credit: WENN

Lindsay Lohan’s dad Michael has been saying for months that Lindsay is addicted to prescription drugs and that she needs an intervention. He’s been doing it in his typically fame-seeking, talk to every paparazzo with a camera way, so it was easy to ignore him at first. Now that Lindsay has been ordered to take random drug tests and wear a SCRAM alcohol monitoring bracelet, people are taking daddy Lohan more seriously. Sadly, he seems to be about the only person in her inner circle trying to get her the help she so obviously needs.

Michael was on The Early Show today (video below) to discuss Lindsay’s recent court order for violating her probation. He had praise for the judge and district attorney and repeated his claim that Lindsay needs professional help and not a jail sentence. One thing that really interested me in this interview was a question posed to Lohan’s lawyer (who is representing him in his bid to get some kind of conservatorship over nearly 24 year-old Lindsay) about whether Lindsay’s random drug tests would reveal prescription drug abuse. Her answer was that to the best of her knowledge, the drug tests would only be for illegal drugs. That probably means that Lindsay can keep popping all the Oxy and Vicodin she can get her hands on. Cocaine leaves your system in a few days, so as long as she keeps away from it and doesn’t drink she might be able to keep abusing prescription drugs. As Dr. Drew Pinksy explained in a recent segment on CNN, “if she’s taking prescription medication she won’t have the same drive to use alcohol or an illicit drug.”

Michael’s lawyer said they’re hoping that prescription drugs are included in the random testing so that Lindsay gets the help she needs. Michael explained that his daughter won’t “ever be herself unless she’s off prescription drugs,” and added “she needs a rehab. She doesn’t need jail.”

Michael Lohan makes a lot of sense, I hate to say. I do disagree on Lindsay not needing jail time, though. She should get the same treatment as others with multiple DUI offenses.

In related news, the truth expert at Eyes for Lies analyzed Lindsay’s recent video in which she half denies having used the cocaine that’s pictured with her in a photo taken in Cannes. Lindsay is full of sh*t, Eyes deduced, and found many ways her story was full of holes:

I think most people see the truth in this situation. Lohan has a serious problem and is in complete denial. In this video, while she is trying to excuse everything, she fails at it miserably.

The reporter asks Lindsay, “Was that cocaine in the photographs?” Notice how Lindsay doesn’t answer the question.

Lohan says, “I was literally walking back to my room with a few of my friends, um, after doing press for my movie…I was with some of the producers I work with. They went back into my room, and the director as well, and I stopped in someone’s room because someone came out of the room, and said, “Could you just take a picture with me really quickly?”

What is fascinating is how Lindsay first says she was with her friends. Then a second later, she says she was with the producer and the director. Which is it? If they are friends, you continue to refer to them as “friends”. If you say producer/director, you would stick with that. Why is she flipping them here? Notice the stutter with the word “um”?

Notice, too, the details are missing in her story.

Supposedly everyone went to her room, but she stopped. Who let them in her room then, if she stopped? Why doesn’t she talks about the details of handing over her key? Is this the cart before the horse–because it is a made up story? It sure looks that way!

[From Eyes for Lies]

Eyes’ assessment of Lindsay is consistent with what Dr. Drew told Larry King about her issues. Like Daddy Lohan, I hate to agree with Dr. Drew, but he’s correct when he says that Lohan is in denial. “She’s an addict… she’s not thinking clearly. She doesn’t have the usual priorities that the rest of us do… how far down is she going to have to go?” Dr. Drew doesn’t think that Lindsay will get busted on a probation violation for setting off the SCRAM device, but assumes that she’ll be unable to make her court ordered alcohol education classes.

Whatever happens, I don’t think anyone expects Lindsay to get through the next six weeks before her next hearing without incident. If her drug tests don’t look for prescription drug abuse, though, she has a better chance at squeaking by.

Here’s a link to the CNN segment on Lindsay. It includes video footage from inside the courtroom that I haven’t seen before in which Lindsay looks both high and completely pissed off to be there.

Update: TMZ reports that Lindsay can take legally prescribed drugs under the terms of the drug testing program, specifically the two she has prescriptions for: the sleep aid Ambien and the ADHD drug/stimulant Adderall.

Several days ago, Dr. Drew Pinsky was talking about Lindsay Lohan’s cracked-out shenanigans on his Facebook page (in comments later reprinted by Radar). Dr. Drew commented: “If she were my daughter, I would pack her car full with illegal substances, send her on her way, call the police, and make sure she was arrested. I would make sure she was not allowed to get out of jail. I would then go to the judge and make sure she was ordered to a minimum of a three year sobriety program.” Dr. Drew later added to Radar: “I absolutely wish no harm to her, but I just have a feeling that something awful is going to happen to her, like she is going to lose a limb. I hope Lindsay gets help before something terrible happens. I have said this many times before, I believe that Lindsay will make a wonderful sober person, someday, if she survives this.”

Totally harsh, right? Like, it’s one thing for all of us out here in the cheap seats to comment on Lindsay’s cracked out shenanigans and puffy vampirism, but it’s quite another when a licensed psychiatrist (or whatever he is, I don’t feel like looking it up) is all “You should get a bunch of cocaine and meth and put it in her car, and hopefully the po-po will taser the f-ck out of her and send her cracked-out ass to jail.” And beyond that, it’s a horrible plan. What if Lindsay was the one to get to her car before the po-po? She would just smoke, snort, inject whatever she “found” and there would be no evidence for the cops to process. Bad plan, Dr. Drew!

Anyway, people are totally enraged about this whole thing, including our beloved crackhead. The Milkaholic ran to Gossip Cop (via OK Magazine) to call out Dr. Drew on his bullsh-t. Note something weird: I completely agree with Lindsay‘s assessment of Dr. Drew. Lindsay said: “He’s a quack and a sell-out… Please tell him to stop! I’m fine I don’t get what’s wrong with people.” Slow clap for Lindsay.

Lindsay’s not the only one whose pissed. HuffPo is now running a piece about how everyone on Facebook was freaking about Dr. Drew’s comments:

Celebrity addiction specialist Drew Pinsky — who goes by Dr. Drew — is taking an online beating for suggesting that the best way to deal with Lindsay Lohan’s drug problem is to “pack her car full with illegal substances” and then call the police.

Dr. Drew’s Facebook page was quickly lit up with criticism following the publication by Radar of his comments. Framing Lohan would itself be a crime and, critics of Dr. Drew are pointing out, would put her at risk of being beaten or shot by the cops.

“If she were my daughter, I would pack her car full with illegal substances, send her on her way, call the police, and make sure she was arrested,” prescribed Dr. Drew. “I would make sure she was not allowed to get out of jail. I would then go to the judge and make sure she was ordered to a minimum of a three year sobriety program.”

Dr. Drew, who hosts a celebrity recovery show and gives professional advice, apparently lives in a world where people found with a “car full with illegal substances” are able to ask the judge to be sent to rehab for three years, instead of prison, and not have their request laughed out of court.

Blogger Scott Morgan at the Drug War Chronicle was among the first to lash out at, arguing that “when you sell Beverly Hills addiction therapy as pop-culture entertainment media, you forget that those same rules don’t apply in Ohio and any parent taking Dr. Drew’s reckless advice is putting their family in the drug war’s deadly crossfire.”

Dr. Drew’s Facebook fans didn’t appreciate the suggestion. A sample of the responses:

Katharanie Celantano: “Dr. Drew, I’ve had several friends die of addiction. I’ve also watched friends struggle to get treatment and have their efforts thwarted by the criminal justice system. These have been some of the most difficult experiences of my life, and it pains me to hear that someone of your influence would say something so destru…ctive and misguided. I know how ugly addiction is, and that is why your words break my heart. Just because my medical challenges do not involve illegal substances, I go to the doctor when I’m sick. And because some of the medical challenges of my friends do involve illegal substances, they don’t get to go to the doctor – they end up incarcerated. And let me tell you – I’ve seen with my own eyes that PTSD just makes a bad situation worse.”

Tom Wytiaz: “Dr Drew, you have to do better. Doctors are supposed to do no harm. You should be advocating for drug law reform and harm reduction, not horrific police tactics and coercive treatment.”

Julia Peterson: “Dr. Drew, you should do a little research about how our criminal justice system treats addicts before you suggest to their families to have them arrested. Only 11% of prisoners with addiction problems get treatment in prison. Besides, prison can be more damaging to a person than an addiction….Prison is not the right solution for addiction.”

[From Huffington Post]

Yeah, I think Dr. Drew is a quack. As CB says, “He’s the Gloria Allred of doctors.” Or, as I say, “What Dr. Drew is to medicine, Lindsay Lohan is to acting.” He shouldn’t have suggested anything like this – although it’s the kind of dumb plan most of us would have hatched, right? I mean, I’ve often thought, “Damn, maybe jail is the only thing that could get Blohan clean.” But I’m not a doctor, and I don’t pretend to be an addiction specialist for money. I just dish out common sense on crackheads on a gossip blog.

Dr. Drew Pinsky really bugs the sh*t out of me. He’s helped a lot of people but he’s a true armchair psychologist and routinely diagnoses and passes judgment on celebrities without ever meeting them. He’s speculated as to whether Angelina is still using heroin and needs treatment, has said that Lindsay Lohan needs to lose a limb before she’ll get sober (maybe he was right) and has said that Brad and Angelina’s nomadic lifestyle is damaging to their kids while giving Brad unsolicited advice about his pot smoking.

Now Dr. Drew is diagnosing Jesse James, Sandra Bullock, Elin Woods and Tiger Woods. He uses addiction speak to explain everything, and while the addiction model has a time and place I don’t think it applies to all situations. Drew calls Jesse James a “sex addict,” which is probably accurate although I’d use a few more choice words for the guy. Then he goes on to say that Sandra is a “love addict” and that she doesn’t have enough of a bond or history with Jesse to justify continuing the relationship. Tiger and Elin, on the other hand, have a “genuine love” according to Drew. Give me a break!

Dr. Drew Pinsky, board certified addiction specialist and host of the hit VH1 show Celebrity Rehab, has some candid advice for Sandra Bullock, “If I were treating Sandra I would advise her to leave Jesse James. They don’t have a long life together, it’s been a relatively short term relationship. There is no doubt to me that this relationship is over. Jesse is a sex addict and Sandra is a love addict. Sex addicts go for power and intensity, and that intensity is probably what attracted Sandra to Jesse. However, that intensity is not love, it’s addiction. Sandra probably didn’t give Jesse that level of intensity that he got with the mistresses.”

Dr. Drew goes on to say that he has one question for Sandra, “Why were you attracted to Jesse? What is going on with her? Jesse is probably a very nice guy, but it’s simply not a good combo for a sex addict and a love addict to be in a relationship. I’m going to make a prediction that Jesse is probably not going to change.”

Dr. Drew says that while Jesse is a sex addict, don’t make any comparisons between Tiger and Elin’s situation, “Tiger and Elin were very much in love at some point, and that was a very genuine love. They have two children together, a family, and many, many experiences together, and many reasons to try and make their marriage work.”

Dr. Drew predicts that Sandra needs “therapy to deal with what has happened. She is probably devastated. I would guess she would need at least a couple of years. She needs individual treatment. I would guess she could start to date in at least six months.”

[From Radar Online]

Has Dr. Drew even met Elin, Tiger, Sandra and Jesse other than in passing. How does he know that what Tiger and Elin have is real and what Sandra and Jesse have is not? I would suspect it has something to do with Tiger and Elin’s two biological kids. Sandra and Jesse have been married for five years while Elin and Tiger have been married for six. It’s not that much different. Plus Sandra has been coparenting Jesse’s three children from his two other marriages. They had as much as a family as Elin and Tiger. Drew doesn’t know what goes on in their relationship. He needs to STFU about people he doesn’t know or treat. Given what I know about his simplistic view and the way he routinely blabs to the press there is no way I would use him as a therapist.

Of course I’m annoyed by the usual hemorrhoids-masquerading-as-celebrities, your Heidi Montags, your Spencer Pratts, your Tila Tequilas, your random mistresses/hookers/junkies. But few fake celebrities piss me off more than Dr. Drew. Probably because I used to like him, back when he and Adam Corrola did Loveline on MTV. After the first few years, Dr. Drew began believing his own hype, I think. Or he began seeing himself as the psychological savior to Hollywood, or maybe he just wanted more money. Whatever it was, Dr. Drew took a nasty turn and became very sanctimonious, hypocritical, unprofessional, and nasty. Just my opinion. Now I can’t even sit through one of his interviews without being disgusted.

Anyway, Life & Style has an interesting story about Dr. Drew, who is currently running Celebrity Rehab on VH1. Apparently, Dr. Drew might have been a cokehead in the eighties:

To millions of viewers who tune into VH1 reality series Celebrity Rehab and Sober House, David “Dr. Drew” Pinsky is one of Hollywood’s most powerful weapons against drug and alcohol addiction. But now, in exclusive interviews with Life & Style, two former colleagues at KROQ — the LA radio station that gave Drew, 51, his big break on the program Loveline — have come forward to talk about the doc’s past. They say Drew knows firsthand what it’s like to fall under the spell of illegal drugs — because he was once a frequent cocaine user himself.

In 1982, Drew hadn’t even finished medical school when he met KROQ DJ Jim Trenton at a party. “I asked him to do this segment with me called Ask a Surgeon,” Trenton tells Life & Style. “Listeners could call in and get answers to their romance and medical questions.” The segment was such a hit, it soon evolved into Loveline — which remains on the air to this day.

While they spent their days helping listeners with their love, sex and health-related problems, Drew and Jim spent many of their nights partying away. Often, Trenton says, that included cocaine use.

“He used to say to me, ‘Jim, I love cocaine,’” Trenton notes. “He’d say that a lot — that he loved coke.” In fact, Trenton adds, Drew “did coke with a lot of different people, including myself, on numerous occasions.”

Joanna Swylde, who worked as an intern at KROQ at the time and partied with Drew and Trenton, confirms Trenton’s claims. She tells Life & Style they even used to snort lines of cocaine off album covers in the control room at work. “We would do it during the breaks on the show,” Swylde recalls.

Although Drew used coke, “I don’t think he was addicted to it,” Trenton tells Life & Style. “He used it recreationally.

“I would say by the mid to late ’80s, he had quit,” Trenton says. “We all stopped doing it.”

[From Life & Style]

Hmm… he did it “recreationally” you say, but he wasn’t an addict? If Dr. Drew was treating himself, he would say that he was an addict, plain and simple, and that he needed to get to Celebrity Rehab right away to work on all of his problems, all while the camera is rolling. But, whatever. I was a child in the eighties, but from what I hear, everyone was doing coke. Which is the point I’d like Dr. Drew to acknowledge – some people do drugs recreationally without ever becoming “addicts”. Some people do drugs and are able to stop without some Dr. Drew-approved rehabilitation. Some people are cokeheads for a decade and then just stop, and become sanctimonious hypocrites, doling out advice that they never took themselves.

Dr. Drew in LA on January 10, 2010. Credit: WENN.