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Dr. Keith Ablow (wvah.com)

David Hasselhoff snitched on by his teenager daughter again. David has been hospitalized for alcohol poisoning. This is the sixth hospital stay, but who’s counting.

According to Vitals.com, Dr. Keith Ablow is a certified psychiatrist and assistant clinical professor at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is also a New York Times bestselling author and Fox news television personality. Dr. Ablow expresses the level of difficulty and commitment that is necessary to battle with alcoholism.

What I have learned is that defeating an addiction to alcohol often takes a multidisciplinary and very aggressive approach that can include:

• A period of acute detoxification in a hospital setting.
• A longer period of rehabilitation in a healing, sober environment like the Caron Center or Fernside at McLean Hospital.
• A very long period of outpatient treatment that is very structured and harnesses the willpower of the patient, his or her family and friends, his or her employer and even the power of the courts.

David Hasselhoff with daughter, Hayley (mtv.com)

A real war means motivating the patient to look at his character. The idea that a person chooses alcohol over his obligations to self and others means that he is unable or unwilling to do the right thing. Lots of therapists don’t want to judge the alcoholic, but judging a man who collapses repeatedly in front of his teenage daughter and makes her worry about him dying is OK by me.David Hasselhoff seems to be a person who needs everything on the menu. I wish him and his family well. And I wish for all of them a doctor willing to go to the wall and wage war on his illness.

This booze binge came just hours after the taping of “America’s Got Talent” wrapped up for the season. The recent divorcee should have been prevented from seeing his daughters, because he’s made worse impact on Hayley than he has on his liver.

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