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Desk
Treatment, relapse, and the medical files that land on this show.
Filed November 11, 2026
Recovery
Sober for three years and four months, the actor spoke at a Beverly Hills addiction-research benefit and called Spelling his “best ex-wife.” Mark Groubert was not won over by the celebrity-recovery circuit.
Recovery
Hall asked strangers for $2,000 to get his family through an Arkansas winter. He says a fraud review froze the campaign while donations kept coming, and he sees no reason to give the extra back.
Autopsy
The Los Angeles County medical examiner found advanced, untreated HIV in the 35-year-old actress and listed chronic polysubstance abuse as a significant contributing condition. Methamphetamine and fentanyl were in her system.
Filed November 4, 2026
Recovery
Five years after going public with her diagnosis, the actress told Jack Osbourne she is starting over with tests for lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and Lyme disease. Mark Groubert was openly skeptical of the celebrity illness circuit.
Recovery
In GQ’s Men of the Year cover story, the comedian ties the habit to a marriage he says he failed at and to a long stretch of rebuilding after his 2016 divorce.
Recovery
Lloyd’s new memoir traces a habit that began with “a couple of lines” in a nightclub parking lot and ended, eventually, after a stay at Sierra Tucson. O’Keefe says “Caddyshack” was the last time he touched the drug.
The counter
A California man says years of gas-station “whipped cream” chargers left him using a walker. A New York Times investigation describes wellness customers who became dependent on kratom within months.
Filed October 28, 2026
Documentary
Netflix released “The One About Matthew Perry” a day before the third anniversary of his death. Mark Groubert says the blame belongs to decades of addiction, not to Kenny Iwamasa, the assistant now in federal prison.
Recovery
A text to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” co-star Susie Essman, Garlin told Ted Danson, set off the rescue that got him into treatment in Cincinnati.
Sober home
The Department of Health Care Services found that Resolutions Living, the Santa Monica home where Gerber died, was not providing treatment that required a license. Mark Groubert said regulators moved “pretty quick.”