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So Lindsay Lohan was busted Tuesday morning for DUI and had coke on her. That didn't take long. I feel for her, really. I hope she gets some help before she's either splattered on a dashboard or she takes out some family of four while racing through the streets. Yes, she's a rich actress, but she's from a fucked up family with fucked up friends, an unrelenting media that won't ease up, etc. But now she's 21 so it might time to look at herself a little more closely and own her actions. The fact that Ms. Lohan was to go on Leno's show tonight seems to indicate that she wasn't taking her recovery too seriously.

Perhaps she or her handlers might want to get a little humility. Nothing against Promises, the $$$ Malibu rehab center where she just blew tens of thousands of dollars for 45 days (after blowing tens of thousands at that other day camp she went to before). After all, a rehab is only as good as the patient and if the patient doesn't want it there is not much a facility can do.

However, and yes this is contradicting the previous paragraph, Ms. Lohan might benefit from a facility if said facility wasn't a country club for the rich and pampered but was actually a place where people are in the fight of their life and recognize it and at least at some level know that if they don't get it, they may not make it back. Perhaps a place where the patients actually did some work, got humble and got clean might be better for her than the place with the best thread count in the sheets.

Look, I don't know stats for rehabs and anyone who says they do is full of shit. I can't tell you whether some country club rehab has a better success rate than some inner city rehab or detox or halfway house or even just some regular rehab that doesn't cost $5000 a day. For some people, it doesn't matter where they go, they just can't get it. It's heartbreaking. That said, it is probably hard to recognize that one's life is out of control if one is expected to have that moment of grace at a Malibu beach house.

Ultimately it comes down to the individual and if they want it. Whether it's Lindsay Lohan or that guy you know down the hall who looks like he woke up in his own vomit, this is ugly stuff. For now, Ms. Lohan seems determined to do the same things over and over again and expect the results to be different. That's not wanting it.