Lindsay Lohan's Doctors Under Investigation

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Lindsay Lohan appears in a courtroom for a probation revocation hearing in Beverly Hills, Calif., Tuesday, July 6, 2010.

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NEW YORK (CBS) The Medical Board of California is investigating the doctors who prescribed a variety of medications to Lindsay Lohan.

An attorney for the actress' father, Michael Lohan, sent a letter to the California attorney general in July asking for an investigation into "the unscrupulous doctors [who] overprescribe medications..."

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TMZ.com reported that the attorney general referred the matter to state medical board, which launched an investigation.

"The Medical Board is investigating and Michael and I are cooperating with them," Bloom confirmed to the website.

The board would not confirm that any investigation was taking place, according to E! Online, as the oversight body is not permitted to publicly disclose any pending cases until charges are pressed and the investigation became a matter of public record.

Such investigations usually take several months, the report states.

Lohan was released early from a 90-day court-ordered rehab stint last month. TMZ said doctors at the UCLA rehab facility believe the actress was misdiagnosed with - and therefore wrongfully prescribed medication for - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Prior to entering UCLA, according to the website, Lohan had various prescriptions, including ones for Dilaudid, Adderall, Nexium, Zoloft, Trazodone and Ambien.

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by Tucci78 September 18, 2010 6:40 AM EDT: Dilaudid (hydromorphone) is a Schedule II controlled substance in the USA, and I confess that I'm puzzled about why Ms. Lohan was prescribed this medication. It's a short-acting opioid agonist and there are a bunch of other choices even in the opioid category that most of us would tend to use before writing a scrip for Dilaudid.

The rest of the meds, including Adderall (a mix of levo- and dextroamphetamine salts), are explicable if it is understood that she had been diagnosed with adult ADHD.

And as an earlier contributor had commented, determining with any kind of certainty that this was a misdiagnosis is going to be pretty damned hard to do. It is certainly appropriate to consider that the treating physician(s) might well have picked up symptom patterns compatible with ADHD and were attempting to mitigate those symptoms with a stimulant compounding (Adderall) and concurrent mood elevator therapy using Zoloft (sertraline) and/or Desyrel (trazodone).

Ms. Lohan's behavior in seeking psychoactive substances - even criminalized drugs like cocaine - in spite of the punishment she has suffered argues strongly for the conclusion that she has a real medical disorder to account for her substance abuse, and is not simply defying the law out of spitefulness.

The "War on (Some) Drugs" is not - and has never been - a war on chemical substances, but rather a war on people with substance dependence disorders, criminalizing conduct that is objectively unrelated to any real injuries imposed upon other people.

The blatant immorality of the drug warriors is hateful in the extreme, and their own criminality at the federal level - blatantly violating the constraints of the U.S. Constitution - should be considered reason sufficient for their dismissal from public office and prosecution as enemies of the charter they had been sworn to support and defend.; Reply to this comment


by taxchurches September 15, 2010 4:27 PM EDT: Newest trend, blaming the drug dealers because you take drugs. Did doctors prescribe the booze and cocaine, too? Spare me.; Reply to this comment


by tsigili September 15, 2010 3:48 PM EDT: Physicians to the stars = stars taking too many drugs because the docs just want the money.; Reply to this comment


by bobnjersey September 15, 2010 3:32 PM EDT: [Lohan was released early from a 90-day court-ordered rehab stint last month. TMZ said doctors at the UCLA rehab facility believe the actress was misdiagnosed with - and therefore wrongfully prescribed medication for - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.]

if this is true ... good luck w/ the investigation. correctly diagnosing adhd is difficult ... and it's common people are misdiagnosed w/ this condition. the meds would not have been wrongfully prescribed if the doctor truly believed this to be the issue.; Reply to this comment