VH1 Heads Back To Rehab with Dr. Drew Pinsky for a Third Installment of 'Celebrity...

VH1 Heads Back To Rehab with Dr. Drew Pinsky for a Third Installment of
'Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew'

Season Three Cast Includes Mackenzie Phillips, Heidi Fleiss, Tom Sizemore,
Dennis Rodman, Mindy McCready, Lisa D'Amato, Mike Starr, Joey Kovar and Kari
Ann Peniche

LOS ANGELES, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- VH1 has once again partnered with Dr. Drew
Pinsky for a third season of the hit reality series "Celebrity Rehab with Dr.
Drew." The series, consisting of eight one-hour episodes, is slated to
premiere in early 2010.

Similar to the first two cycles, the third season of "Celebrity Rehab with Dr.
Drew" will follow the real-life experiences of celebrity patients undergoing
detoxification and treatment at The Pasadena Recovery Center. The show will
follow Mackenzie Phillips (One Day At A Time), Heidi Fleiss, Tom Sizemore,
Dennis Rodman, Mindy McCready (Country Music Singer), Lisa D'Amato (ANTM),
Mike Starr (Alice in Chains), Joey Kovar (Real World Hollywood) and Kari Ann
Peniche (Playboy Playmate).

The series will chronicle the patients' intensive 21-day program with both
group and one-on-one therapy and non-traditional therapies like art and music.
Returning to the show to help Dr. Drew are drug counselor Bob Forrest and
resident technician Shelly Sprague who have each spent years on both sides of
the rehab fence. Dr. Drew is also bringing in some additional prominent
physicians to help him give the patients supplementary one-on-one care.

Dr. Drew, who is a highly respected practicing MD and is board certified in
addiction medicine, will once again give viewers an unflinching look at
exactly how the rehab process works and what it feels like for participants.
Dr. Drew hopes to use his celebrity patients to humanize the process and show
viewers that treatment is a viable way to break the cycle of addiction.

Dr. Drew is host of the nationally syndicated radio show LOVELINE where he has
been taking calls from listeners since 1984. Many people do not know that Dr.
Drew is an internist who is board certified in addiction medicine, still runs
a private practice, and is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the
Keck USC School of Medicine. Although he is an associate professor of
clinical psychiatry at the KECK USC he is not a psychologist or psychiatrist.
He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Mirror Effect: How
Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America (Harper Collins) and CRACKED:
Putting Broken Lives Together Again (Harper Collins,) that looks at treating
addicts from a caretaker's perspective. Among numerous awards, Dr. Drew was
honored with the 2008 Larry Stewart Leadership and Inspiration Award at the
12th Annual PRISM Awards.

"Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew" is executive produced by John Irwin, Damian
Sullivan and Bruce Toms for Irwin Entertainment. Dr. Drew Pinsky and Howard
Lapides also serve as executive producers. Jeff Olde, Jill Holmes, and Noah
Pollack are executive producers for VH1.

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Contact: Scott Acord Lori Bogin
310-752-8075 212-846-7131
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