Intake
Season 1, Episode 1 TV-14
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On the series premiere, eight drug addicted celebrities check themselves into rehab under the care of Dr. Drew Pinsky and begin their difficult battle for sobriety. As each celebrity (Brigitte Nielsen, Joanie "Chyna Doll" Laurer, Jeff Conaway, Daniel Baldwin, Seth "Shifty" Binzer, Mary Carey, Jaimee Foxworth & Jessica Sierra) is introduced, their painful back-story and struggle with drugs is profiled. Dr. Drew begins to analyze and assess his patients' struggles through a series of one-on-one meetings, but his attention is pulled away by a drunken, doped up Jeff Conaway who lapses into a seizure and ends up being rushed to the hospital.
Detox
Season 1, Episode 2 TV-14
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Viewing Jeff Conaway’s extraordinary and harsh detox, the rehabbers get to see what rehab is really about. The rehabbers watch Jeff's struggle in horror and wonder, could this happen to them? Overwhelmed, Jessica spirals into an emotional tailspin, but she finds some solace when Brigitte comforts her about her broken relationship with her drug addicted, prostitute mother. While Jeff continues to battle his withdrawal symptoms in the hospital, emotions flare for the rest of the group when it is revealed that Jeff brought drugs into the rehab.
New Arrival
Season 1, Episode 3 TV-14
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Jeff finally returns from the hospital, but while he continues to detox, Drew lectures Jeff's co-dependent girlfriend about her own bad habits that will kill Jeff. Meanwhile, another celebrity joins the group, former Ultimate Fighting Champion, Rico Rodriguez. Rico doesn't exactly hit it off with the women in the group and he gets an earful from Jessica during his first group meeting. Later, Dr. Drew works with Mary Carey on how to leave behind her porn star lifestyle, but Daniel tries to lure her back into her sex-charged ways when he entices her into a forbidden flirtation.
Sex and Trauma
Season 1, Episode 4 TV-14
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Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew is the first television series to chronicle the dramatic, unscripted real life experiences of a group of actual celebrities as they make the life-changing decision to enter themselves into a drug, alcohol and addiction treatment program with the sincere desire to achieve true rehabilitation and recovery. This compelling true account of addiction, healing, and redemption is being supervised with great compassion and insight by renowned addiction and recovery expert Dr. Drew Pinsky, Medical Director of the Department of Chemical Dependency Services at Southern California’s Las Encinas Hospital, and host of the long-running radio and television advice series “Loveline”. Witness the real true life struggles of these celebrity patients, who ultimately appear in their sincerest human form as regular people in need of a helping hand and earnestly striving for recovery, health and future happiness.
Bye Bye Baldwin
Season 1, Episode 5 TV-14
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Everyone reels after finding out about the inappropriate text messaging between Daniel and Mary, so Dr. Drew is charged with pulling the group back together. In an attempt to put her porn star persona behind her, Mary reawakens her sober youth by revisiting ballet. Chyna also starts to open up, as she is pushed to her emotional limits by Dr. Drew’s questions as to why she is in rehab if she is not truly an addict. Jeff’s journey also hits a nerve when he berates his girlfriend Vikki for bringing alcohol into the unit.
Friends and Family
Season 1, Episode 6 TV-14
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After threatening many times during his stay at rehab to leave, Jeff renews his quest to quit. Everyone is growing so tired of his antics that Dr. Drew must move the attention away from Jeff and refocus each member of the group towards their respective recoveries. The process is coming close to the end, so Dr. Drew must start preparing the group to live a sober life in the real world. The first step to that end is to bring friends and family into the unit, as they are the people with whom the rehabbers will depend on most during their continued recovery. During this family weekend, the total effects of addiction are revealed and it becomes painfully clear just how much our rehabbers’ addictions have affected everyone around them.
Retreat
Season 1, Episode 7 TV-14
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The end of rehab is now VERY near and rehabbers must seriously start making plans for sober living. The group even expresses who they think will and won’t make it. Since the group is mere days away from the sober living, Dr. Drew plans a trip for them to Catalina where the rehabbers will get a feel of being back in the regular world. This plan backfires completely when the trip turns into utter chaos, leading Dr. Drew to feel like he’s failed his patients. Upon returning to the recovery center, Jeff finally carries out on his threats to leave and quits rehab for good. Seth decides to blow off steam after this very emotional day and starts a food fight that is the perfect exclamation point on this day of juvenile behavior and negative results.
Graduation I
Season 1, Episode 8 TV-14
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After the Catalina fiasco and food fight, Dr. Drew is fed up – he’s melting down. He tells the group that even though they are about to leave rehab, the disease is winning and that if they continue to act this way, he doubts that any of them will make it. Dr. Drew reveals to the group that VH1 is going to pay for 3 months in a sober living facility for anyone who wants it. In Dr. Drew's opinion, they all need to take the offer, but the rehabbers come up with many reasons to say "no." Dr. Drew tells the rehabbers that he is finished helping them and as graduation approaches, it is unclear who will graduate and who will be willing to go to sober living.
Graduation II
Season 1, Episode 9 TV-14
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After weeks of detox, withdrawal, therapy and healing, it is graduation time. With the news that sober living will be provided free of charge, the cast struggles with the decision to continue treatment after rehab, or to go home and face temptation. Mary is worried that sober living will interfere with her beauty routine and sex life. Jaimee suddenly has prior commitments. And Seth tries to convince everyone they need to come to sober living with him to keep from relapsing. At the graduation ceremony, each person announces how he or she plans to stay sober.
Reunion
Season 1, Episode 10 TV-14
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Dr. Drew reunites several of his celebrity rehab patients to find out what happened after they left treatment. Drew reveals who has relapsed, who has stayed sober and who is back in rehab.