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A Cult Punk Rocker's New Book on Getting Sober -- And Helping Others Do the Same

Bob Forrest's compelling memoir, Running With Monsters (written with occasional L.A. Weekly contributor Michael Albo), reads like a checklist of your typical junkie's life: overdoses, dead friends, homelessness, jail time. Forrest even managed to get himself banned from a Marina del Rey rehab. But t ... More >>

At the Prism Awards, Hollywood Honors Accurate Portrayals of Mental illness

Hollywood has a checkered history of covering mental health and substance abuse, reaching bottom with Nightmare on Elm Street. A young Johnny Depp played the killer as a schizophrenic, imprinting that image of mental illness on millions. To counteract such stigma, the Entertainment Industry Counci ... More >>

6 Other Boxing One-Man Shows We'd Like to See

See also: *Mike Tyson's One-Man Show at the Pantages Theater Is Surprisingly Good Mike Tyson's much-hyped one man Broadway show (and Spike Lee joint) Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth came to L.A. for just a few performances this past weekend. In it he apparently comes clean about his past by admitting ... More >>

National Reality TV Awards: Kim Kardashian Didn't Show, But the Helicopter Dude From The Bachelorette Was There

So Kathy Griffin has this term of, well, not endearment -- whatever the opposite of endearment is -- for the Creative Arts Emmys. She calls them "The Schmemmys," basically because they're the nerdy little sister of the Emmys, where the supposedly second-tier awards are given out. We don't know if M ... More >>

Shelley Lubben's Pink Cross Aims to Rescue Sex Actresses: The Industry Wants Her to Shut Up

Marijuana's Top 5 Uses, From Real University Research

Here in California, marijuana is legal for just about any ailment you can dream up. And while medical cannabis supporters have argued that the drug is a harmless tool for grandmothers with cancer who want to forget their pain and spark their appetites, there has been plenty of academic research on ... More >>

Marijuana Can Help Prevent Suicide, Study Suggests

Marijuana does many magical things, not the least of which is make dubstep listenable. In Los Angeles, we use it pretty much legally for back pain, nausea and hot tubbing. But a new study from Germany says that, in U.S. states like California where marijuana has become medically legit, rates of sui ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Dead Within in a Year, Dr Drew Predicts

Ted Soqui for LA WeeklyLohan's day club.​Lindsay Lohan's spiral of chaos continued today when she showed up late to the L.A. County morgue to perform community service. This a day after she was jailed for failing to abide by the terms of her probation, specifically for failing to perform commu ... More >>

Circumcision Available For All Under New Law Signed by Jerry Brown

Gov. Jerry Brown over the weekend said enough with the touchy-feely-we're-liberal-but-we're-still-going-to-tell-you-what-to-do b.s. that seems to permeate some of California's lefty cities. More specifically, he said

Monster Movie: Bob Forrest Talks Rock and Rehab

​It's one thing for a rock musician to get sober (you can't fling a cigarette butt outside a coffee shop without hitting one in Los Angeles), but it's another to devote your life to helping others wrestle those demons. Bob Forrest was once one of the most promising front men in the L.A. music ... More >>

Drummers Really Do Get Laid the Most: Phil Varone's Had Sex with 3000 Women

We'd rather know many she's had​Phil Varone, the drummer for Saigon Kick, Skid Row and Prunella Scales, is unleashing his sexy on the world with his XXX movie Phil Varone's Secret Sex Stash (sorry, we just gagged, too). In the highly NSFW teaser, alongside which appropriately features a phot ... More >>

Jeff Conaway Didn't Die of an Overdose, Says Dr. Drew

Jeff Conaway.​Despite reports that an overdose put him in a coma before his untimely death in L.A. today, TMZ reports that Grease star Jeff Conaway did not die of an O.D. Dr. Drew Pinsky tells the site that Conaway, also a cast member of TV's Taxi, succumbed to "overwhelming pneumonia and sep ... More >>

Marijuana: Tucson Massacre Suspect Jared Loughner Was 'Habitual' Pot User

Suspect Jared Loughner.​An Army official says Tucson massacre suspect Jared Loughner, who wanted to sign up for military service two years ago, was a "habitual drug abuser." The revelation brings up the question of whether marijuana played a role in an apparently troubled man's life. While ca ... More >>

As Californians Seek Treatment For Pot Problems In Record Numbers, We Gotta Ask: Is Marijuana Really Addictive?

Will weed hook you in?​As dispensaries in Los Angeles have numbered near 550 at their peak and California has became the stoner state that led all others (15 of them now) toward medical legalization, we noted Monday that there has also been a huge rise in those seeking treatment for pot addict ... More >>

Top 10 Hot Chicks In The News 2010: No. 5, Rachel Uchitel

VH1Hot chick Uchitel.​What "Hot Chicks In The News 2010" list would be complete without the inclusion of at least one Tiger Woods girl? We know, that was so last year. But this hot-chick story has legs. In this case, we have Rachel Uchitel, the ground zero of Tiger Woods girls, the one who th ... More >>

Adam Carolla Rips L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa In Latest Issue Of 'Los Angeles' Magazine

adamcarolla.comAdam Carolla with Dr. Drew Pinsky.​Podcast blowhard and onetime Dancing With The Stars loser Adam Carolla is no fan of the Philippines, same-sex parents, and Hawaiians, as his would-be assassins listeners know. L.A.'s mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, is also on that list, apparently ... More >>

Know Your History, Lindsay Lohan: Cocaine Sales And Abuse From The Incas To Studio 54 To The Mexican Cartels

globovision via Flickr​With Lindsay Lohan due headed back to jail after she failed a drug test that was part of her DUI probation (the lab reportedly alerted for coke), and with Paris Hilton's recent cop to possessing powder, '70s blow is back in the headlines. We here at LA Weekly world headquar ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan And Paris Hilton Get Caught In Snow, And Dr. Drew Explains Why Cocaine Is Hot (Q&A)

Dr. Drew.​Cocaine? In this economy? Strange how things recycle. The era best known for white lines was the 1980s, the decade of Reagan, Armani and new wealth, but also a horrible early '80s recession and a late 1980s housing bust. With Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton both admitting to apparent ... More >>

"When you're in that state of mind, you'll put your pee-pee in anything": GnR's Steven Adler Talks about His New Autobiography, Overcoming Addiction, Slash's Text Message Obsession, and His Unconditional Love for his "Ginger" Buddy Axl Rose (and Stryper!)

"Axl is a ginger, so he doesn't tan very well": Steven Adler, unmuzzled​No man's danced with "Mr. Brownstone" and dodged death as many times as original Guns n' Roses drummer Steven Adler, one of the architects of the greatest '80s hard rock album. After surviving "twenty-eight ODs, three bot ... More >>

Thelonious Monster to Play Surprise Echo Show Tonight in Advance of Warped Dates, Feature Film

Thelonious Monster is reuniting for their first show in 5 years tonight at the Echo, a surprise gig featuring a pretty impressive line-up of LA punk veterans, including: Mike Martt (Tex & The Horseheads, Steve Earle), Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Two Free Stooges) and Dix Denny (The Weirdos), bassi ... More >>

LA-ist Looks Back on L.A. Riots and Rodney King Today

Caleb Bacon of LAist has posted a thoroughly engaging and sympathetic piece on Rodney King, the now-44-year-old black motorist whose savage beating by LAPD cops in 1991 would result a year later in citywide rioting. That 1992 violence, which exploded 17 years ago today, has been eradicated from the ... More >>

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Today in Photographs: January 26, 1985

An early "Loveline" teen-sex advice broadcast at radio station KROQ. Left to right: DJ The Poorman (Jim Trenton), Dr. Drew Pinsky and DJ Scott Mason. (Photo: L.A. Times/UCLA Digital Collection)

L.A. Weekly Newsmakers: Columnist Mark Groubert on Dr. Drew Live, Jonathan Gold vs. Heal the Bay in L.A. Times

Last night L.A. Weekly's Mark Groubert stopped by Dr. Drew Pinsky's nationally syndicated radio show, Dr. Drew Live, to chat about his articles on Congresswoman Diane E. Watson and Proposition 5, plus his upcoming book on addiction in America. Earlier this year, Groubert was also on Pinsky's show t ... More >>

Listen to "Rehab City" Writer Mark Groubert on Dr. Drew's Radio Show

Mark Groubert, who wrote the three articles that make up "Rehab City" in the June 27 issue of LA Weekly, was a guest on Dr. Drew's nationally syndicated radio show yesterday. Dr. Drew Pinsky is of course the long-time co-host of KROQ's Loveline, and various MTV spinoffs, which have gotten increas ... More >>

Rehab or Bust: A Guide to L.A.'s Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers

Addiction: Buying the Cure at Passages Malibu

At upscale "rehab," all you need is faith. And $67,000 a month

Celeb Rehab's Surreal Aftermath

Picking up the pieces of reality excess

The Geography of Hustling

Through the past darkly with a former pro