Hollywood, can we get a grip here??? 8-year old children act out "Scarface" in Hollywood stageplay

This is not okay. If Hollywood has ever needed any evidence on how out-of-touch the situation is on the message Hollywood is sending to the youth regarding drugs and violence, this tops it all. What can we do to change this? Why do people get away with stuff like this?

I am apalled!

Lindsay Lohan - It's time to get sober and get your life back!

Lindsay Lohan is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood. But in the last few years we have watched her fade into the absent minded world of addiction. Today I am seeing pictures on TMZ of Lindsay and it does not take an expert to see that Lindsay is not in touch with the real world anymore.

KTLA reported that police are thinking about committing Lindsay to an involuntary 5150 hold. 5150 is a 72 hour evaluation. I hope if the authorities do commit her, they make a recommendation for treatment of six months or more - away from Hollywood.

Lindsay is not getting it. She is not happy with who she is on the inside. Every time we turn around Lindsay has a different hair color. Why? Distracting on the outside so we don't have to deal with what's on the inside? It's quite typical for addicts.

5150 means it's over. Get real or get more of the same. It's time to want this thing Lindsay. A prayer for you. Get sober and get your life back.

Corey Haim, first tried Marijuana when he was 15 years old

There are so many folks who argue against the "gateway theory" of marijuana, yet when I look at the case of Corey Haim I see myself and I always say for me marijuana was the gateway drug. According to this month's issue of People Magazine, Corey Haim tried marijuana for the fist time when it was offered to him on the set of "Lost Boys." That experience later lead to alcohol, then cocaine and then crack addiction for Haim, all while he was still in his teens.

EMINEM showing improvement on Rocket Man's watch

Okay, sooo..., rapper EMINEM who was recently taken under the wing of Rocket Man, Sir Elton John to mentor him for success in sobriety has a new album. It's called "Refill." Looks like Sir Elton John's mentoring is having a good influence on EMINEM. In this video, visitors are invited to go to rehab. Inside doors can be clicked on which lead down dark corridors and other "interesting" empty places. Very hip. (...if you've never had to go to those places that is. Personally, I've been there so it's a little creepy, but I can deal.) The rap rocks and it shows that you don't have to be all spaced out on dope to write a slammin groove. Good work Sir Elton John!

Leif Garrett, Angel in trouble on my Watch List

We think we have our life back in control after we get treatment from professionals. Rehabs and sober living can do a lot for us in early sobriety. But when those places are gone and we have a little time in recovery, we tend to forget that the work is now ours to do. Rehab is not just there so we can get the publicity we need to get people back on our side. Rehab means we have crossed the line and we are in trouble, that we have to look at reality and that means we can not use drugs again. We have to change if we want to live.

Leif Garrett had more than one year in recovery after this appearance on Entertainment Tonight. But Leif fell back into a pattern and relapsed. The L.A. Times reported Leif is facing charges for possession of black tar heroin.

Leif is a known addict. We know he is prone to relapse. Lets help Leif out and get him the help he needs and let's not lose sight of Leif so he can get some solid recovery under his belt.

Coery Haim's death likely to be psychosomatic - Part II

Corey Haim was without a doubt in search of being something more than he was to mask the ordinary part of his life which addiction took far out of reach. But like many addicts, during our addiction we live our life by some bizarre script that lets us build the addiction around our life and our life around the addiction. We don't realize exactly how mentally unhealthy this is for us until we realize that we have played on our script for so long that we no longer remember or know life on life's terms. That's a real bad sign for us and we must learn to recognize it and do something about it by getting sober and bringing the ordinary world back before we lose all sense of reality.

With Corey Haim the signs if his own self-contrived bizarre world were more real than we may have recognized before. Please know that this is not a judgment, but rather a tragic pattern. In the show "The Two Coreys" Haim is seen painting and he is quite good at it. When he had wild emotions, anger and passion he would dive into his canvasses and paint beautiful colors. Yet at the same time we have to take a look at the world perhaps governed by his creativity.

On Haim's official website we see the background of Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night." As we merge to Haim's MySpace page, we see the wallpaper again is Van Gough, along with the song "Vincent" by Don McLean whose lyrics may reveal more about Haim's own desperation and feelings of being misunderstood than we may have thought.

Van Gogh was an mentally ill man and the end of his days are quite sad.

"Vincent Van Gogh, painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20^th century art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life, and died largely unknown, at the age of 37, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound." - Wikipedia

One of the projects Haim was working on (movie wise) has the following summary:

A Detour in Life - Here's the summary

After James wife is tragically killed by a horse, he takes a detour down a road of self-destruction and drunkenness, ignoring the cries of help from his coming of age daughter, Abbey. Will James stay down this path? Or will he fight his inner demons, if not just for the sake of himself, but for the sake of Abbey? What detour will Abbey choose after the loss of her mother and her father becoming a drunk? Both Abbey and James go through a roller coaster of a life of ups and downs. But something or someone is coming to settle this coaster ride by an unexpected detour that comes along from an unlikely source. One that neither of them ever saw coming. Will it be for the good or for bad? If good, will they accept this new detour? Who or what is this detour? Only James and Abbey can figure it out together. But it will take one of them to make the turn, which ever way they go will have a huge impact on the rest of their life. (Written by Tina Brown)

Addicts cannot retain sobriety by being exposed to negativity and by following examples of ill health. If we continue to follow the path of destructive thoughts and flight from the love of others we simply will not understand how to recover. Haim knew this to some degree as he tried to do many good deeds to make up for the things he lacked, such as helping animals at shelters.

Coery Haim, the funeral and "The Two Coreys"

Strangely enough, many of the people commenting about the City of Toronto paying for Haim's funeral, disagree with the city. That's a real sad deal to read how people feel about a guy who was down on his luck and ran out of chances.

I found and watched 10 episodes of "The Two Coreys" yesterday on You Tube (There were actually 19 episodes from 2007-2008). Haim had no chance to grow and come out of his addiction. I think that show will become a major study on how not to treat an out-of-control addict. Helping an addict through confrontation, controlling and by pushing his or her buttons creates more addiction, not sobriety.

Corey Feldman had no idea what he was dealing with and I feel badly for him because he really tried to do "what he thought was right." Feldman's actions will come back to haunt him, though we should always remember that Feldman too is recovering from addiction. The actions Feldman took ended up being the exact opposite of what Haim needed. Haim created his own loneliness and desperation, but he was in so deep that he did not know how to ask for help anymore because he was constantly asked to feed on humble pie and that placed him into inner conflict and prideful behavior.

When do we know an addict is asking for help? When he or she says, again and again, "I need help, I want to change" and then makes that change.

We have to be patient with relapsing addicts. Our fear of failure is critical to our sobriety. Make no mistake about that. If we make a relapsing addict aware of failure with provocative comments and confrontation, he or she will not be able to grow and find his or her will to hold on to recovery.

Corey Feldman says "Go Kill Yourself" about (to) Corey Haim

In this episode of "The Two Corey's" some of the most emotionally toxic dialogue takes place which is harmful and without surrender.

An argument begins at about the 4:40 mark in this clip where Corey Feldman actually says the words "go kill yourself" about (to) Corey Haim. Is that what a real Friend says to someone who is in that bad of shape with addiction? I think not! Feldman knew there was a chance Haim may watch this clip.

Arguments are the most harmful elements in the recovery process. Judgements can often lead to suicide or overdose because they take away the hope that one day we will grow and not think of hurting ourselves with substance abuse.

Coery Haim's death likely to be psychosomatic - Part I

After watching this clip on TMZ it became clear to me that Corey Haim was acting in this show and that the true dialouge of his real addiction was heavily supressed. His restless moves, his eagerness to reveal his problems and playing off Corey Feldman was all for show.

The doctor in the clip was not of much help either. No one was willing to give Corey the emotional help he needed. They were only willing to make a list of what he took and too no inventory of the pain which drove his addiction.

Corey's cry for help in this video is painful to watch.

Corey Haim, overdose at 38

It is always incredibly sad to see someone die so young at the hands of drugs. I feel sad for Corey's loved ones. People just don't think it is any of their business to interfere with a drug addict just because the addict says "things are under control." Corey was in and out of rehab 17 times. He clearly had no control over his addiction and no true will to stop hurting himself with drugs.

Once again we watch as a known drug addict faced the end of the road with no one to stop him. This is not acceptable.