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I'm not one to watch daytime television, but yesterday I had the opportunity to catch "The Dr. Phil House: Heroin Twins, The Intervention, Part 2." In this two-part series, TV therapist Dr. Phil McGraw aims to expose his television audience to the horror of heroin withdrawal. Viewers of the program observe 25 year old Sarah go through immediate withdrawal from prolonged heroin use. Sarah's twin sister Tecoa has been in recovery from heroin use for one month. The twins are confined in a Big Brother-style environment known as "Dr. Phil's House" and are monitored by a detox nurse and a psychologist. By day two of withdrawal, Sarah is resisting all efforts by staff to get the bed sheets off her head and Tecoa is being accused of sabotaging Sarah's recovery. When Sarah and Tecoa fail to comply with the psychologist's wishes to go for walks and engage in conversation about "what it feels like to be in withdrawal," the house staff call in the big guns.
Dr. Phil is known for his simplistic approach to psychology by telling guests on his show to "get real" about their problem behavior. Perhaps this mantra has contributed to Dr. Phil's persona as a rational and level-headed psychologist who "only wants to help" settle family squabbles and patch up relationships before a national audience of homemakers.
However, Dr. Phil's formula for putting bad behavior in check seemed to be no match for two cantankerous women who are missing heroin. After the twin sisters rebuff Dr. Phil's commandments to comply with the house staff's wishes, the TV therapist flatly abandons his "get real" approach and begins resorting to threats and scare tactics. In a great display of made-for-TV dramatics, Dr. Phil warns Sarah that "the next time you try to buy drugs I will make sure that you get busted and your ass gets thrown in the penitentiary."
Dr. Phil failed to change the twin sister's attitudes using his usual methods. So he got angry, and what does he do? Rely on the draconian drug laws to talk some sense into these women. But Dr. Phil should know that the war on drugs is anything but rational. And it sure is hell does nothing to make people "get real" about their drug use.
Perhaps, the airing of "Heroin Twins" presents the reform community with an opportunity to inform day-time talk show hosts that drug dogs, pee cups and SWAT teams do nothing to curb drug use. Imagine Dr. Phil, Oprah and others promoting harm reduction approaches and profiling alternatives to incarceration for drug offenses. If these types of approaches to problem drug use could get through to the likes of Dr. Phil, it is safe to say that his "get real" mantra would have a whole new meaning.
Posted by Grant Smith.
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Irie Dave

I had the unfortunate experience of seeing that shit, Dr. Phil is truly a degenerate scumbag. He's said before that marijuana "fries your brain," if that's true (which it's not, obviously) than Dr. Phil must have had smoken a LOT of marijuana in his time. I shouldn't even slander such a wonder plant like that, even in jest, but anyway it's funny how Dr. Phil blatantly gets off on dominance & humiliation & placing himself in a position of superiority and yet this addiction will never be addressed on the show, rather it's promoted. If we didn't live in such a fucked up society people wouldn't end up in such a bad way like those two girls, & braindead moronic pop-pyschology like Dr. Phil's piece of trash show is a blatant symptom of this sickness.

Seriously, not to offend anyone who is southern who is enlightened, but why do we let redneck idiots run shit here? They should be scrubbing floors or something, not tv personalities and presidents. I think I need to move to Canada...