TV Guide: Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew

Video: Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew Season 2

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew is the first television series to chronicle the dramatic, unscripted real life experiences of a group of actual celebrities as they make the life-changing decision to enter themselves into a drug, alcohol and addiction treatment program with the sincere desire to achieve true rehabilitation and recovery.

Video: Episode 9

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

It's day 19 of Celebrity rehab, and graduation is just around the corner. The patients have just enjoyed an evening out at a comedy club, and are returning back to the PRC. Jeff had stayed back ill, and when Vikki returns to check on him, he is clearly enraged at her for abandoning him. Vikki tries to reason with Jeff, but he gets increasingly angry. At the height of his rage, he kicks her in the chest, and Luisha breaks it up. The remaining patients are excited about graduation, and grapple with the decision of continuing on to sober living. At their very last Morning Meditation, Shelly asks the group to talk about their future in sobriety, and what they are going to change. Dr. Drew welcomes everyone to the graduation and coining ceremony, and expresses what a privilege it's been to be part of the experience. Everyone says their final goodbyes and Dr. Drew wishes his congratulations to those who are continuing on to sober living. He feels their decision will increase their chances of

Video: Episode 8

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

It's day 18 of Celebrity Rehab and the patients are getting a first hand look of what relapse is all about. Seth "Shifty" Binzer, a graduate of last year's program, is on the roof, smoking crack while Shelly tries desperately to get him down and into the PRC for the safety of himself and the entire unit. As Shelly tries to do her assessment with Seth, he becomes combative and tries to leave one more time. Luckily, with Shelly's persistence, Seth stops fighting the process and goes to bed. Seth talks about how much easier it gets to go back to the drugs each time he relapses. Shelly explains that if they are truly going to stay sober, they need to do the program 100%, and they can't choose the parts they'll adhere to and the parts they won't, because they just won't stay sober that way. Jeff admits that his sobriety has a better chance now that Vikki is getting treatment as well. Dr. Drew explains how invested in their sobriety the treatment team is and how desperately they want each of

Video: Episode 7

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

It's day fifteen at rehab, and the patients are starting to feel better; more vibrant and alive. Dr. Drew reminds the patients that being of a service is a great way to stay grounded in recovery, and informs Sean, Tawny, Amber and Steven that he has arranged for them to volunteer at the Midnight Mission, serving food to the homeless. Meanwhile back at the Recovery Center, Dr. Drew holds one-on-one sessions with some of the patients who aren't at the mission. He is very concerned with Nikki's inability to face her mother's death. Dr. Drew thinks it would be extremely helpful for Nikki to focus on her creativity and get back to writing songs.

Video: Episode 6

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

It is now the halfway point in treatment and it s time for Family Weekend!! As the patients move into the next stage of treatment, they begin to focus on how to take action to move forward in their recovery. Dr. Drew and his staff are faced with the challenge to help patients reconnect with their friends and family as they work toward solutions. However as Dr. Drew moves forward with building everyone up for Family Weekend, inevitably patients begin to unravel.

Video: Episode 5

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

In his most desperate act yet, Jeff Conaway has called 911 and informed the authorities that he's being held against his will. In an effort to prevent such outbursts, the group is sent to art therapy. Outside, Steven confides to Shelly that he's having trouble dealing with the bitterness he has towards his mother. As the group exits the art therapy studio to return to the unit, Gary and Jeff have a dispute about who is going to sit in the front seat of the van. The standoff is intense and both Gary and Jeff get physical. The rest of the group can only watch in stunned silence as Jeff screams in Gary's face. Shelly arrives to mediate, but it's too late.

Video: Episode 1

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Addiction specialist Dr. Drew returns for a second season of Celebrity Rehab to once again face the challenges of helping the famous and the infamous in their efforts to overcome their addictions and regain control of their lives. As the celebrity patients check in, Dr. Drew meets with each of them one-on-one to gain an understanding of their history of abuse and the severity of their problems.

Video: Episode 4

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

As the midpoint of Celebrity Rehab 2 draws near, the patients at Pasadena Recovery Center are going to start facing tough emotional issues while they explore what is behind their addictive behavior. With this in mind, Dr. Drew leads a discussion about mothers, a subject that can be particularly touchy to some addicts. Steven Adler's abandonment issues, for example, are a direct result of a dysfunctional relationship with his mother. Amber Smith shares that she was forced to support her drug-addicted mother at a very young age. Nikki McKibbin can also relate, as her mother's death was a result of many years of alcohol and drug abuse.

Video: Episode 3

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

It's day four of Celebrity Rehab and the patients have finally begun to emerge from the painful sickness of withdrawal. Now the real work can begin. Dr. Drew believes it is important at this point to start exploring the feelings that move drug addicts to use in the first place. One of the first steps in doing this is figuring out what sort of community the current group of patients is forming. Will they bond over their common illness, or will emerging conflicts have a splintering effect?

Video: Episode 2

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Dr. Drew's patients have only recently checked in to Celebrity Rehab, but there is already a major predicament. Gary Busey is feeling insecure about his place amongst the patients. He would like to make it clear to Dr. Drew that he is here to provide assistance and guidance. Several of the patients are detoxifying from the dangerous drugs on which their bodies have become physiologically dependent. In the first group process meeting, Dr. Drew and his staff point out that the first obstacle they must face in treatment is the fear of kicking their drug habits, which can be a painful and uncomfortable experience. Dr. Drew likens the process to grieving - a notion that resonates with most of the patients.

Video: Graduation II

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

After weeks of detox, withdrawal, therapy and healing, it is graduation time. With the news that sober living will be provided free of charge, the cast struggles with the decision to continue treatment after rehab, or to go home and face temptation. Mary is worried that sober living will interfere with her beauty routine and sex life. Jaimee suddenly has prior commitments. And Seth tries to convince everyone they need to come to sober living with him to keep from relapsing. At the graduation ceremony, each person announces how he or she plans to stay sober.

Video: Graduation I

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

After the Catalina fiasco and food fight, Dr. Drew is fed up -- he's melting down. He tells the group that even though they are about to leave rehab, the disease is winning and that if they continue to act this way, he doubts that any of them will make it. Dr. Drew reveals to the group that VH1 is going to pay for 3 months in a sober living facility for anyone who wants it. In Dr. Drew's opinion, they all need to take the offer, but the rehabbers come up with many reasons to say "no." Dr. Drew tells the rehabbers that he is finished helping them and as graduation approaches, it is unclear who will graduate and who will be willing to go to sober living.

Video: Friends and Family

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

After threatening many times during his stay at rehab to leave, Jeff renews his quest to quit. Everyone is growing so tired of his antics that Dr. Drew must move the attention away from Jeff and refocus each member of the group towards their respective recoveries. The process is coming close to the end, so Dr. Drew must start preparing the group how to live a sober life in the real world. The first step to that end is to bring friends and family into the unit, as they are the people with whom the rehabbers will depend on most during their continued recovery. During this family weekend, the total effects of addiction are revealed and it becomes painfully clear just how much our rehabbers addictions have affected everyone around them.

Video: Sex and Trauma

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Our rehabbers deal with their painful and abusive pasts, as many of them are affected by physical, sexual or mental trauma from a very early age. Dr. Drew explores their various issues, having the group work as a whole to overcome their problems. Specific sexual issues start to surface, prompting newly married Daniel to feel this rehab is not conducive to his sobriety. Daniel comes up with numerous reasons to leave rehab, from issues with the production process to having acting work lined up that he cannot turn down, but in the end, Dr. Drew discovers that Daniel is actually leaving because of the inappropriate text messages that he had sent to Mary.

Video: Retreat

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The end of rehab is now VERY near and rehabbers must seriously start making plans for sober living. The group even expresses who they think will and won t make it. Since the group is mere days away from the sober living, Dr. Drew plans a trip for them to Catalina where the rehabbers will get a feel of being back in the regular world. This plan backfires completely when the trip turns into utter chaos, leading Dr. Drew to feel like he s failed his patients. Upon returning to the recovery center, Jeff finally carries out on his threats to leave and quits rehab for good. Seth decides to blow off steam after this very emotional day and starts a food fight that is the perfect exclamation point on this day of juvenile behavior and negative results.

Video: Bye Bye Baldwin

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Everyone reels after finding out about the inappropriate text messaging between Daniel and Mary, so Dr. Drew is charged with pulling the group back together. In an attempt to put her porn star persona behind her, Mary reawakens her sober youth by revisiting ballet. Chyna also starts to open up, as she is pushed to her emotional limits by Dr. Drew s questions as to why she is in rehab if she is not truly an addict. Jeff s journey also hits a nerve when he berates his girlfriend Vikki for bringing alcohol into the unit.

Video: New Arrival

Amazon Video on Demand — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Jeff finally returns from the hospital, but while he continues to detox, Drew lectures Jeff's co-dependant girlfriend about her own bad habits will kill Jeff. Meanwhile, another celebrity joins the group, former Ultimate Fighting Champion, Rico Rodriguez. Rico doesn't exactly hit it off with the women in the group and he gets an earful from Jessica during his first group meeting. Later, Dr. Drew works with Mary Carey on how to leave behind her porn star lifestyle, but Daniel tries to lure her back into her sex-charged ways when he entices her into a forbidden flirtation.

Video: Detox

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Viewing Jeff Conaway's extraordinary and harsh detox, the rehabbers get to see what rehab is really about. The rehabbers watch Jeff's struggle in horror and wonder, could this happen to them? Overwhelmed, Jessica spirals into an emotional tailspin, but she finds some solace when Brigitte comforts her about her broken relationship with her drug addicted, prostitute mother. While Jeff continues to battle his withdrawal symptoms in the hospital, emotions flare for the rest of the group when it is revealed that Jeff brought drugs into the rehab.

Video: Intake

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

On the series premiere, eight drug addicted celebrities check themselves into rehab under the care of Dr. Drew Pinsky and begin their difficult battle for sobriety. As each celebrity (Brigitte Nielsen, Joanie Chyna Doll" Laurer, Jeff Conaway, Daniel Baldwin, Seth "Shifty" Binzer, Mary Carey, Jaimee Foxworth & Jessica Sierra) is introduced, their painful backstory and struggle with drugs is profiled. Dr. Drew begins to analyze and assess his patients' struggles through a series of one-on-one meetings, but his attention is pulled away by a drunken, doped up Jeff Conaway who lapses into a seizure and ends up being rushed to the hospital."

Photo: Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew - Brigitte Nielson