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Lindsay Lohan to Appear in Playboy; Father Michael Gets Arrested

Posted by Drug Free in Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation on October 28th, 2011

Reports say that Lindsay Lohan will be appearing in Hugh Hefner’s famous magazine, Playboy. LiLo’s Playboy pictorial is said to take place this week somewhere in Los Angeles.

Lindsay LohanRepresentatives from both the magazine’s and Lohan’s camp have yet to release a comment on the news, but it looks like LiLo will be taking her clothes off for the popular men’s mag.

Playboy allegedly offered Lohan $750,000, but the actress’s camp wanted a million. They reportedly agreed somewhere in between the two amounts.

While waiting for her date with Playboy, Lohan will continue her community service at the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office which she has started last Friday. Lohan is expected to fulfill 16 hours of duty and will have to appear in court on November 2nd.

Meanwhile, Lindsay’s also-controversial father Michael Lohan has been arrested in Tampa, Florida for domestic violence.

Police responded to a distress call from Michael’s home, and he was later arrested for physically hurting his live-in partner. But as police took him into custody, Lindsay’s dad complained of chest pains and was taken to a hospital. After checking out from the facility, he was placed under arrest.

Earlier in March, the 51-year-old Lohan was also arrested for the same violation in Los Angeles. He was charged with one misdemeanor count of corporal injury to a cohabitant.

Lindsay and her dad are still on a strained relationship, but they both took a stint at the Betty Ford Center for family counseling while she was undergoing treatment.

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Michael Lohan to Speak at South Florida Teen Rehab

Posted by Drug Free in Drug Abuse Treatment, Drug Rehabilitation, Raising Healthy Kids on February 20th, 2011

Michael Lohan, the equally controversial father of actress Lindsay Lohan and her siblings Ali, Cody, and Michael Jr., will be in Florida for a chance to visit troubled teens in a rehab facility. He will have a speaking engagement at South Florida for those who are participating in the nationally famous and parent-recommended residential teen rehab program, the Inspirations for Youth and Families.

Michael and Lindsay LohanMichael agreed to speak to the community as a way of keeping his promise to his daughter Lindsay that he will be helping other teenagers and their families survive the critical years of adolescence.

Christopher Walsh and Karen Corcoran Walsh created the Inspirations as a unique approach in working with teens and their families. The Inspirations for Youth and Families is popularly known as the Inspirations Teen Rehab which is a licensed residential treatment center for teens ages 13 to 18 years old. The center serves as the house that will cover therapeutic programs needed by troubled teens and their families.

Michael and the Walshes are concerned with the growing rate of adolescent drug use and the tragedies that arise from these situations. Through the institution, they try to let others know about the dangers of teenage substance abuse and reach out to parents who are losing hope and don’t know what measures to take in dealing with their children’s problems.

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Rehab Gets in the Way of Lindsay Lohan’s Movie

Posted by Drug Free in Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Drug Testing on November 22nd, 2010

While it will certainly be better for Lindsay Lohan to focus on herself and on permanently getting her life on track, there are trade-offs and sacrifices that she had to make in order to do that. According to recent reports, the young actress will no longer be playing the role of Linda Lovelace in the movie “Inferno,” even if she already shot preliminary stills for the movie.

Lindsay LohanPeople.com shared that Watchmen star Malin Akerman has been chosen to play the role of Lovelace, replacing Lohan.

Chris Hanley, producer of “Inferno,” gave the following statement regarding the decision to replace the actress: “Lindsay had scheduling issues due to legal obligations and is continuing to focus on getting better in rehabilitation in Palm Springs, and she really had to focus on that in our opinion – and hers… for herself and her career in general it was really her decision to just focus on getting better psychologically.”

When Lindsay started having legal problems, the people behind Inferno had stood by her. Unfortunately, an extension of her stay in rehab reportedly prompted the replacement. They were also said to have found it hard to get insurance for the actress.

Lindsay Lohan is currently in a “sober living facility” affiliated with the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California. Her stay in rehab has been extended to January 3, at the very least. It can be recalled that when Lindsay got out of jail and rehab early, she failed random drug testing. From that view point, it would seem that the decision to extend her stay in rehab is best over-all.

Of Akerman, Hanley said: “Malin was passionate to take this challenge of the role to task, and we feel she has the talent to meet that challenge.”

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Lindsay Lohan Headed Back to Rehab on Monday

Posted by Drug Free in Alcohol Abuse, Drug Addiction, Drug Testing on September 28th, 2010

More news on actress Lindsay Lohan: she is reportedly headed back into rehab on Monday. This time around, though, she is checking herself in voluntarily, at least based on information from a source close to the actress. This was shared in a feature on CNN.

Lindsay LohanMs. Lohan spent some time in jail again after failing a random drug test. She spent 13 days in jail and 23 days in a court-mandated rehab program at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center just last month. The actress was originally ordered to spend 90 days each in jail and in rehab, but was released early. This time around, she spent 14 hours in jail.

Lohan admitted to the failed drug test last week, and sent out the following tweet: “Substance abuse is a disease, which unfortunately doesn’t go away over night… I am working hard to overcome it and am taking positive steps.”

One positive step is going into rehab voluntarily, something that her dad Michael Lohan, at least according to him, has been pushing for, He said: “Finally, they listened to me.” He expressed hope that Shawn Chapman Holley, his daughter’s lawyer, would do “the right thing and advises her to go right into rehab now, and show the judge she’s serious, because in 30 days when she goes back before the judge he can do whatever he wants.”

Lindsay Lohan was released on $300,000 bail. The bail terms called for Lindsay to be fitted with an alcohol monitoring bracelet. A probation revocation hearing had been scheduled for October 22.

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Lindsay Lohan May Be Up for Jail Time Again!

Posted by Drug Free in Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Drug Testing on September 21st, 2010

Actress Lindsay Lohan may be headed for the slammer again, due to her failing court-mandated drug tests recently.

lindsay lohanLos Angeles defense attorney Trent Copeland gave the following comment to the New York Daily News: “There’s no question in my mind: she’s getting that 30-day jail sentence. (Her judge) took the unusual step of allowing her to be released from in-patient rehab early. Then within days she goes out and fails a drug test. She knew what she was risking.”

Ms. Lohan had tested positive for cocaine during a random drug test taken two weeks ago, and then failed a second test, which revealed amphetamines in her system. The random tests are part of the conditions handed down by the judge after her early release from rehab.

The Daily News had various sources, however, who said that Lindsay may not need to finish an entire 30-day sentence – should she get such a sentence – due to overcrowding, and for good behavior. She may actually end up spending only five days in jail.

Judge Elden Fox was informed about Ms. Lohan’s probation violation on Monday morning. Her probation has been revoked, and the judge has issued a no-bail bench warrant. She has a date with the court on Friday.

DUI attorney Paul Takakjian told the Daily News that the judge may hand down a sentence immediately: “If Judge Fox said on the record that she’d get 30 days for a dirty test, it’s highly unlikely she’ll receive anything less. He’d lose credibility… But he won’t exercise punitive control for the sake of being harsh. He’s one of the best judges we have and truly wants to help the people in his courtroom.”

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Lindsay Lohan Talks to Vanity Fair About Personal Struggles

Posted by Drug Free in Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation on September 3rd, 2010

A few days after her recent sentence was handed down, actress Lindsay Lohan gave an interview to Vanity Fair and talked about, among other things, alcohol and drugs. A feature on USA Today showed excerpts of the interview with the magazine, which is included in an issue that has Lindsay on the cover, due to hit newsstands on September 7.

lindsay lohanOne of the things that the actress says may have led to what can only be described as a series of unfortunate events in her personal life is being around the wrong sort of people. She also denied being an alcoholic, or abusing prescription drugs – something that her dad Michael Lohan had hinted at, to say the least, quite a few times. She told Vanity Fair: “If I were the alcoholic everyone says I am, then putting a [scram] bracelet on would have ended me up in detox, in the emergency room…”

Lindsay also said that while she does admit to “dabbling in certain things and trying things ’cause I was young and curious and thought it was like, O.K., ’cause other people were doing it and other people put it in front of me,” she denies ever abusing prescription drugs, nor having the desire to do so.

The interview inevitably included questions about her father Michael, and Lindsay reacted to the fact that he gave an interview immediately after attending her probation hearing.

There is one thing that Lindsay is confident about, however: “I don’t care what anyone says. I know that I’m a damn good actress.”

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