Dr. Drew Says Presley Gerber Needed More Than Rehab

Here at Team Z we live stream our show and we had some viewers asking Should they be when you're trying to recover you're trying to get clean. Should you be in such a posh or plush? Facility when you're trying to get treatment Do you think what what should a sober treatment facility look like for a patient celebrity or not? Who is just really really going through it, right? So I'm of the opinion that somebody like Presley Gerber should be in a psychiatric Pediatric hospital a full-service hospital with nurses Internists psychologists psychiatrists. So someone and I suspect that may have happened to him He may actually have been in that environment and to get him off drugs Now we live in a time when we live in the world of medically assisted treatment, which is not all bad But Presley Gerber is an example of where it goes off the rail a little bit in that People never get off these medically assisted drugs In fact, many physicians tell them that they can never get off and so they're never really away from the disease of addiction and In some cases that works in some cases. That is a safer way to go in his case He was taking benzodiazepines on top of the suboxone, which is a deadly combination That is frequently prescribed and he was complaining that he was been given 20 medications and didn't really know how to manage them That immediately should trigger a psychiatric hospitalization But we live in a world where even people with unlimited resources Can't get adequate insurance to cover the insurance companies which will not allow psychiatric hospitalization Unless somebody is an imminent harm to herself or other Then they are shunted off to residential facilities and sober living which are different levels of care now he could have been if he had been stabilized psychiatrically, but as an inpatient or even as an outpatient a Residential level of care should be able to manage this kind of a case But it is very dangerous and very complicated in terms of the poshness of these facilities No, they shouldn't be spending their money on the environment They should be spending their money on the care of the patients and the staff And so whenever I see an elaborate facility or facility that's making lots of money I I don't trust it to me. It's the treatment of drug addiction is not a good business It's a terrible business It requires so much human resources and so much dedication that it's just not a good business And so people are making a lot of money of it I'm already suspect and if the patient is dictating where and what they get for care The patient has an addicted brain or a psychiatrically ill brain a brain disorder brain disease And if that individual is calling the shots, you're going to be in trouble