Saturday, February 13, 2010
VH1's Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew Pinsky - Is It Good for Addiction?
The third season of VH1's Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew Pinsky started in the beginning of January. If you haven't seen this show you should give it a try. I find that different people have different reactions. If you are unfamiliar with addiction and drug abuse you may find it overdone. The truth though is that it is real people going through real detox and treatment.
There is one camp that says that this show is not good for addiction. They are making claims that Dr. Drew's VH1's Celebrity Rehab is a joke. People think the joke is that these addicts are celebrities. With all of the attention to celebrity overdoses and deaths, I don't know how people cannot accept that this is real. In 2009 alone there were more drug-related deaths that I recall for any other year.
In an interview by Dr. Drew of the Pasedena Recovery Center, the treatment center where Celebrity Rehab is filmed, he states that it is the media that are exploiting the sickness of these addicted celebrities, not his show. He decided to do the television reality show to bring awareness and help addicted people. His goal is not to harm them. In his interview he uses the example of Britney Spears parading around and the media following her then degrading her. His hope is that Celebrity Rehab will actually saves lives and show people that rehab is hard work.
My personal opinion? I like the show. I have watched most of them as well as Sex Rehab, and I think that these are important topics. Certainly anyone who has been in treatment since the invent of reality television, and probably beforehand, has thought "hey, they should be filming this sh*t, at least it's something real!". I think that if you watch Celebrity Rehab with an open mind and get past the idea that the patients are television stars then you'll go a long way toward getting a better grasp on addiction.
I am pretty sure of one thing. If this were Celebrity Cancer Rehab, people would be praising Dr. Drew and the patients for their bravery. Addiction is a brain disease. What is the difference?
There is one camp that says that this show is not good for addiction. They are making claims that Dr. Drew's VH1's Celebrity Rehab is a joke. People think the joke is that these addicts are celebrities. With all of the attention to celebrity overdoses and deaths, I don't know how people cannot accept that this is real. In 2009 alone there were more drug-related deaths that I recall for any other year.
In an interview by Dr. Drew of the Pasedena Recovery Center, the treatment center where Celebrity Rehab is filmed, he states that it is the media that are exploiting the sickness of these addicted celebrities, not his show. He decided to do the television reality show to bring awareness and help addicted people. His goal is not to harm them. In his interview he uses the example of Britney Spears parading around and the media following her then degrading her. His hope is that Celebrity Rehab will actually saves lives and show people that rehab is hard work.
My personal opinion? I like the show. I have watched most of them as well as Sex Rehab, and I think that these are important topics. Certainly anyone who has been in treatment since the invent of reality television, and probably beforehand, has thought "hey, they should be filming this sh*t, at least it's something real!". I think that if you watch Celebrity Rehab with an open mind and get past the idea that the patients are television stars then you'll go a long way toward getting a better grasp on addiction.
I am pretty sure of one thing. If this were Celebrity Cancer Rehab, people would be praising Dr. Drew and the patients for their bravery. Addiction is a brain disease. What is the difference?
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