Report: Lindsay Lohan's doctors recommend shorter rehab

When does "90 days in rehab" not really mean 90 days in rehab? Perhaps when you're Lindsay Lohan.

Lohan attorney Shawn Chapman Holley met Wednesday in chambers, TMZ said, with Judge Elden Fox and Deputy D.A. Danette Meyers, reportedly to discuss input on the actress' progress from her doctors at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

A court date "to discuss Lindsay's treatment" -- that according to a Radar Online source -- has been set for Aug. 25.

Radar says doctors are recommending LiLo's treatment go for 30 days max. TMZ noted last week that the UCLA program typically runs 45 days.

In case you haven't been marking it off on your calendar, Lohan was transferred to rehab from jail in the wee hours on Aug. 2, having served 13 days of her 90-day jail sentence.

-- Christie D'Zurilla

Photo: Lindsay Lohan arrives at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, where she also spent less than 90 days. Credit: Danny Moloshok / Reuters.

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Comments

[snhi]

When LiLo is 99 Years Old-- Tabloids will still be talking about her Dui at age 20.

People will still be saying 'bad LiLo bad'.

And Tmz will still be saying 'people luv gossip and we luv their $$'

[simon]

Yea, I notice a lot of people second guessing what UCLA recommends. I'm betting none with a legitimate medical decree (or those docs who do are famewhore docs who have never met her). Why not assume UCLA knows what it is doing? Because she had one DUI, doesn't mean she needs rehab. If so, a LOT OF PEOPLE better check in. I am not condoning her DUI surely, but why single out this woman? Yea, she didn't do her probation properly and she's paying the price, but enough with this woman already. Sick of it.

[George Richard Wilkes]

My father had a saying: "A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still."

If Lindsay doesn't want to drink, then rehab is necessary -- but if she does want to drink, what's the point of being forced into rehab?

Incidentally, I don't drink, and I don't recommend it -- but consider that saying I quoted.

[Patricia]

It was Dr. Drew and Michael Lohan together who got the public fixated on the idea that Lindsay was at death's door and her hard core addictions were going to kill her any second now and we need to pack a car full of drugs and get her arrested for multiple felonies in order to save her life.

So what happened, eh, guys? It appears that the doctors who are treating her don't agree with you at all.

[maduceone]

LiLo must be approaching the record for most coverage of someone doing nothing particularly newsworthy - I still maintain that she is a performance artist who has built a portfolio of performances recorded by the media that is second to none - oh yeah, her life is the performance. The "million $" interview will help finance continuing those performances - so congratulations again to LiLo. You haven't let incarceration and hospitalization interfere with continuous media coverage and it looks like you will get the funds you need to go on with the show!

[daniele gaither]

Wonder if she's disturbing other patients on the unit.

[snhi]

Tabloid News is Not Real (Same as Reality TV and Soap Operas)--
When LiLo is 99 Years Old, Tabloids will still be talking about her DUI at age 20, and TMZ will still be selling go$$ip.

She seems to be a nice person despite the Tabloid abuse - If she just leaves LA and her Paparazzi stalkers behind, she won't need anxiety medicine!

FYI: Latest UCLA report is LiLo was taken off ALL her prescriptns no problems. Mood drug maintenance was discredited in the early 80s because patient became Vulnerable in various ways.