Britney In Detox - Britney Spears

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Britney Spears checked into UCLA Medical Center on Thursday at 1:30AM and is currently going through a detox process at the hospital.

Spears is being evaluated for her condition so she can be given the proper medication to treat her bipolar condition.

“It’s often helpful to clear the decks under medical supervision and get back to the drawing board and decide, ‘What have we been dealing with here?’” Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist who has not treated the pop star, tells PageSix.

“You have lots of people who have manic symptoms of bipolar disorder wrongly diagnosed with attention deficit disorder,” says Dr. Ablow. “But if you put those people on stimulant medication, you can make them worse by driving them into the highest highs of their disorder.”

Spears is expected to stay at UCLA for another 3-14 days. After she is discharged from the hospital her parents plan on taking her back to their hometown in Kentwood, Louisiana so she can recuperate.

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Reader Comments

7:27AM 02/02/08 Chris

Well ok La chat well why aren't the tv docs being investigated but Dr. Phil is?

7:16AM 02/02/08 La Chat

Melanie people are entitled to freedom of speech, but they are not entitled to scream out fire if none exists. Dr. Ablow is screaming Fire without proof of their being one and that is not okay. Do you get what I am saying now?

6:14AM 02/02/08 Chris

OK la chat, what part of tv doctor and real doctor don't you understand? Dr. Ablow, Dr. Pinsky, the doc on Nancy Grace whose name I don't know and others are talking heads. That's what they do, talk. They give their insight and expert opinion on the latest star to go to rehab, psyche ward etc. They talk about Britney, Heath, the guy on Greys's Anatomy. Dr. Phil was being used by her family as a real doctor to help Britney. He should have shut the fuck up. That jackass had no business talking to anybody about anything concerning Britney. Just like your personal doctor shouldn't run his mouth about you. Now la chat that's the difference.....jeez.

1:21AM 02/02/08 Melanie

Dr. Ablow is speculating about Britney like every other shrink on tv and the net. They can, they don't treat her. Dr. Phil who was recruited as her therapist should have kept his mouth shut. So I think you're wrong. And so does the California Psychiatric Board or whatever it is that is investigating him.

0:39AM 02/02/08 plusbbcatherin

Sad how her life seems to be such a mess. 161 articles all about Britney and counting (This is only in a month). ______________ As a beautiful part-time model from US, i like those happy communities. internet is quite a good place to meet friends and even find whatever you need. i have uploaded my hot photos and videos at the site Largemingle.com maybe you can check my profile firstly!

3:47PM 02/01/08 La Chat

Neither Dr. Phil nor Dr. Ablow should have made any kind of statements so your wrong Melanie.

7:25AM 02/01/08 Buffy

Absolutely correct on both posts, Melanie.

6:09AM 02/01/08 Melanie

Dr. Ablow and others aren't her doctor. They can give their opinions and thoughts. Dr. Phil on the other hand was used by the family to be some kind of therapist and he runs his mouth to entertainment tonight. That's the difference. I'm sure if Britney's current shrink did the same thing he/she would get condemned too.

4:59AM 02/01/08 Lawrence

I hope she can get through the hard time soon. She has not logged in Richromances.com for a few weeks~~~Hope she gets better soon

9:44PM 01/31/08 Hey There

Has it occurred to Hollyscoop's new advertiser that the word "WORM" has bad associations for computer/Internet users?

9:29PM 01/31/08 La Chat

Melanie...He's a doctor he knows how a patient is treated that does not mean that is the treatment that she is under going and he has no place to make such a statement, because she is not his patient and if she was his patient he still should not make a statement. What I can't figure out is how is that Dr. Phil did the same thing and people are trying to send him off to the chopping block for it, but this guy is doing the same thing and no one is taking it to the same measures.

7:27PM 01/31/08 eva

HELLO ...... I WAS JST BEING SARCASTIC ABOUT THE WHOLE FREINDS THING! LMAO!

6:12PM 01/31/08 Melanie

Detox is part of the psyche evaluation. They have to get you off of whatever you might be on in order to diagnose you properly. So Dr. Ablow might not be her doctor the process he is decribing is correct.

5:26PM 01/31/08 La Chat

This guy Dr. Keith Ablow has made this statement to page six and yet he is "NOT" treating the pop star so who is he to make such a statement in the first place? He's not a creditable source for that type of information. Just typical Page Six antics.

4:48PM 01/31/08 psych

She is actually under a 5150, not detox. They have her there under watch and she is once again being evaluated from a psychological standpoint. She can only be held there for 72 hours, as part of the 5150... she is stays there after the 72 hour limit, it is because she chose to. Honestly, the only way she gets better is if she consciously chooses to do so! You can help someone that does not want help. She is probably unaware that she has a dissassciative identity disorder... and Adnan is a piece of shit, user and abuser... Lufti was right to say he's a manic trigger... HELLO isn't it obvious.

4:00PM 01/31/08 eva

OMGEE. ITS BOUT TIME SHE GETS SUM HELP I HOPE SHE GETS BETTER! I WAS NEVER A FAN OF HER MUSIC OR HER BUT CANT HELP TO FEEL SORRY FOR SUMONE GOING THROUGH SUCH STRESS AND SUMONE THATS SEEMS TO BE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF BY EVERYONE SHE SURROUNDS HERSELF WITH .... WHAT REAL FREINDS SHE HAS!