Amber Portwood of MTV's 'Teen Mom' to begin 5-year jail sentence
Amber Portwood of "teen mom" was sentenced to 5 years in jail, per week before the new season of her series starts.
Portwood is being sent to jail as a result of she dropped out of a drug-treatment program the court ordered her to finish.
The first episode of minor mom shows Portwood getting ready to depart for rehab. within the second episode, she's in rehab and thinks she's creating progress, however the prosecutor tells the Indianapolis Star that Portwood left rehab, saying she could not hack it.
'Teen Mom' Amber Portwood ordered to jail
Reality-show subject Amber Portwood, whose legal troubles began on MTV's "Teen Mom" show, are going to be in an Indiana jail for subsequent 2 years or additional.
Madison County, Indiana, Circuit choose David Happe dominated Tuesday that Portwood should serve the jail time he imposed earlier this year when she pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge. She had avoided jail with a plea deal that included drug rehab, however she dropped out of the program last month.
Portwood, 22, was arrested on could twenty four for violating her drug court probation needs by failing a urine check and then lying concerning it, Prosecuting Attorney Rodney Cummings said.
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That violation might not have caused probation to be revoked, since probationers are given 2 or 3 opportunities, "but she simply opted out," Cummings said. "I simply do not suppose she knew opting out meant 5 years in jail."
Portwood can seemingly pay two-and-a-half years in jail before being released on parole for the rest of the 5 years, Cummings said. Inmates get daily reduced from their jail time for every day successfully served. it's attainable she might get another 30-day reduction for finishing a drug rehab program whereas in jail, he said.
The report that Portwood undoubtedly are going to be placed during a jail drug rehab program isn't correct, since which will solely be determined once she is within the Indiana jail system, he said.
It in all probability can take 2 weeks before the commitment order is signed by the choose and Portwood is transferred from the Madison County jail to state corrections department custody, he said.
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Portwood was initial arrested on felony domestic violence charges in November 2010 due to incidents seen on her reality TV show -- where she was shown shoving, punching, slapping and choking her boyfriend, Gary Shirley.
In November, HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell reported on "Teen Mom" star Amber Portwood's personal and legal woes.
She was rearrested last December when a probation search found "a fairly sufficient quantity of many completely different prescription pills" that weren't prescribed to her, Cummings said.
She spent quite a month in jail before reaching a plea deal on a felony drug charge that included the drug rehab program, he said.
Her 3-year-old daughter is within the custody of Shirley, the father.
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As Amber Portwood reports to jail, artistic Care Malibu's Dr. Karen Khaleghi said understanding the fact star's call to forgo continued treatment for a five-year jail term extremely is not concerning "choice."
"An addict isn't within the driver's seat of their life -- addiction is," the co-founder and director of the addiction treatment center said. "They're not actively sitting down and researching their selections, and weighing out the pluses and minuses of what they are doing in their lives."
Khaleghi and her husband, Dr. Morteza Khaleghi, are treating addicts like Amber who are merely reacting to their "irrational" selections for quite 20 years -- since debuting their dual-diagnosis approach to the planet of addiction treatment and recovery.
Scratching beneath the surface of addiction
"Dual-diagnosis wasn't continuously accepted," she said. "We try and facilitate folks perceive how they arrive at the place that they're -- checking out what drives them to medicating themselves and to alter those feelings."
Triggers could also be an apparent trauma, like sexual abuse, or an "underlying abuse that is laborious to place into words," she said.
At the hearing where Portwood told an Indiana choose to place her in jail, she claimed to possess continuously been a "bad lady."
She has additionally gone public concerning her battles with bipolar and dissociative temperament disorders.
"Most of the those that come back to us are through multiple treatment programs and they have been unsuccessful," Khaleghi said. "They would possibly keep clean and sober whereas during a treatment program and then go straight back to their drug of alternative.
"You need to alter the physical addiction, of course, however you furthermore mght need to alter what led them to that place to start with," she added.
Portwood herself has "been there, done that." She was in court-ordered rehab however landed back in front of the choose for the terribly factor that got her bother within the initial place -- illegally possessing pharmaceuticals.
Will Portwood's jail time, in and of itself, be a kind of "rehab?"
Not precisely, says Khaleghi.
"The reality is, simply because she's in jail, does not imply she's not aiming to have access -- though the access is actually lessened," she said. "What she must do [to get the drugs] is vastly completely different than what it's on the surface."
And the laborious time itself does not guarantee the 22-year-old can learn her lesson.
"She will expect laborious knocks, that is needless to say," Khaleghi said. "But if it's simply laborious knocks, and he or she does not perceive how she need to the place emotionally that drives her addiction within the face of all rational things, she's going to still use."
The curse of celebrity
Portwood could all right be the primary to admit that the warmth of the spotlight has created her existing emotional issues worse.
"When I've given comments concerning the passing of celebrities over time -- like Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson -- the problem of celebrity may be a ton of individuals are giving them what they are posing for, they are being abled in their addiction by those higher served by that person being in that public eye," Khaleghi said.
But there's continuously hope, in line with Khaleghi. the maximum amount because the public could mourn Amy Winehouse, there's Robert Downey Jr.
Once an ad kid for celebrity addiction, the actor has enjoyed a series of skilled (and personal) successes since obtaining sober in 2004.
"Celebrities have plenty of choices," Khaleghi said. "They have sober coaches and sober companions."
The latter is what it seems like, in line with Khaleghi, who said rock bands, for instance, could enlist the steering of a sober companion at events to carry members accountable to their sobriety.
Amber Portwood of "teen mom" was sentenced to 5 years in jail, per week before the new season of her series starts.
Portwood is being sent to jail as a result of she dropped out of a drug-treatment program the court ordered her to finish.
The first episode of minor mom shows Portwood getting ready to depart for rehab. within the second episode, she's in rehab and thinks she's creating progress, however the prosecutor tells the Indianapolis Star that Portwood left rehab, saying she could not hack it.
'Teen Mom' Amber Portwood ordered to jail
Reality-show subject Amber Portwood, whose legal troubles began on MTV's "Teen Mom" show, are going to be in an Indiana jail for subsequent 2 years or additional.
Madison County, Indiana, Circuit choose David Happe dominated Tuesday that Portwood should serve the jail time he imposed earlier this year when she pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge. She had avoided jail with a plea deal that included drug rehab, however she dropped out of the program last month.
Portwood, 22, was arrested on could twenty four for violating her drug court probation needs by failing a urine check and then lying concerning it, Prosecuting Attorney Rodney Cummings said.
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That violation might not have caused probation to be revoked, since probationers are given 2 or 3 opportunities, "but she simply opted out," Cummings said. "I simply do not suppose she knew opting out meant 5 years in jail."
Portwood can seemingly pay two-and-a-half years in jail before being released on parole for the rest of the 5 years, Cummings said. Inmates get daily reduced from their jail time for every day successfully served. it's attainable she might get another 30-day reduction for finishing a drug rehab program whereas in jail, he said.
The report that Portwood undoubtedly are going to be placed during a jail drug rehab program isn't correct, since which will solely be determined once she is within the Indiana jail system, he said.
It in all probability can take 2 weeks before the commitment order is signed by the choose and Portwood is transferred from the Madison County jail to state corrections department custody, he said.
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Portwood was initial arrested on felony domestic violence charges in November 2010 due to incidents seen on her reality TV show -- where she was shown shoving, punching, slapping and choking her boyfriend, Gary Shirley.
In November, HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell reported on "Teen Mom" star Amber Portwood's personal and legal woes.
She was rearrested last December when a probation search found "a fairly sufficient quantity of many completely different prescription pills" that weren't prescribed to her, Cummings said.
She spent quite a month in jail before reaching a plea deal on a felony drug charge that included the drug rehab program, he said.
Her 3-year-old daughter is within the custody of Shirley, the father.
Why troubled Teen Mom Amber Portwood selected jail
As Amber Portwood reports to jail, artistic Care Malibu's Dr. Karen Khaleghi said understanding the fact star's call to forgo continued treatment for a five-year jail term extremely is not concerning "choice."
"An addict isn't within the driver's seat of their life -- addiction is," the co-founder and director of the addiction treatment center said. "They're not actively sitting down and researching their selections, and weighing out the pluses and minuses of what they are doing in their lives."
Khaleghi and her husband, Dr. Morteza Khaleghi, are treating addicts like Amber who are merely reacting to their "irrational" selections for quite 20 years -- since debuting their dual-diagnosis approach to the planet of addiction treatment and recovery.
Scratching beneath the surface of addiction
"Dual-diagnosis wasn't continuously accepted," she said. "We try and facilitate folks perceive how they arrive at the place that they're -- checking out what drives them to medicating themselves and to alter those feelings."
Triggers could also be an apparent trauma, like sexual abuse, or an "underlying abuse that is laborious to place into words," she said.
At the hearing where Portwood told an Indiana choose to place her in jail, she claimed to possess continuously been a "bad lady."
She has additionally gone public concerning her battles with bipolar and dissociative temperament disorders.
"Most of the those that come back to us are through multiple treatment programs and they have been unsuccessful," Khaleghi said. "They would possibly keep clean and sober whereas during a treatment program and then go straight back to their drug of alternative.
"You need to alter the physical addiction, of course, however you furthermore mght need to alter what led them to that place to start with," she added.
Portwood herself has "been there, done that." She was in court-ordered rehab however landed back in front of the choose for the terribly factor that got her bother within the initial place -- illegally possessing pharmaceuticals.
Will Portwood's jail time, in and of itself, be a kind of "rehab?"
Not precisely, says Khaleghi.
"The reality is, simply because she's in jail, does not imply she's not aiming to have access -- though the access is actually lessened," she said. "What she must do [to get the drugs] is vastly completely different than what it's on the surface."
And the laborious time itself does not guarantee the 22-year-old can learn her lesson.
"She will expect laborious knocks, that is needless to say," Khaleghi said. "But if it's simply laborious knocks, and he or she does not perceive how she need to the place emotionally that drives her addiction within the face of all rational things, she's going to still use."
The curse of celebrity
Portwood could all right be the primary to admit that the warmth of the spotlight has created her existing emotional issues worse.
"When I've given comments concerning the passing of celebrities over time -- like Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson -- the problem of celebrity may be a ton of individuals are giving them what they are posing for, they are being abled in their addiction by those higher served by that person being in that public eye," Khaleghi said.
But there's continuously hope, in line with Khaleghi. the maximum amount because the public could mourn Amy Winehouse, there's Robert Downey Jr.
Once an ad kid for celebrity addiction, the actor has enjoyed a series of skilled (and personal) successes since obtaining sober in 2004.
"Celebrities have plenty of choices," Khaleghi said. "They have sober coaches and sober companions."
The latter is what it seems like, in line with Khaleghi, who said rock bands, for instance, could enlist the steering of a sober companion at events to carry members accountable to their sobriety.
