Erica thinks that she only needs treatment
if she's on a two week alcohol bender,
People tell me all the time how worried they are for me.
And that just annoys me period.
Just leave me alone. (laughing)
While in treatment, she was drinking perfume,
cleaning supplies and hand sanitizer
by mixing it with water.
I don't think it's the treatment not working,
I think it's her.
You know, during this pandemic,
there has been a whole lot more of that
than you might think,
which is why we chose to do that story
is really that it's gone up tremendously.
People drinking substances and taking substances,
not intended, primarily, for human consumption.
Hand sanitizer has become a real serious problem.
And that's why I asked Dr. Kahn to come on,
to talk about the specifics
of the three different kinds of alcohol.
They make it bitter and toxic on purpose
so that it's not for human consumption.
It will make you inebriated, it's true,
it will make you vomit and can put you into coma
with bleeding ulcers in your stomach.
And that's clearly labeled isopropyl alcohol.
There is also the fact that they can actually
take grain alcohol and make it into ethyl alcohol.
That's the scary one.
It starts as booze, but they have to, again, denature it.
So by law, it isn't qualified as alcohol.`
Same thing, it can put you in a coma,
but the big risk for Erica,
the reason that we have to figure out and you,
I know can help her, Dr. Phil,
is what's the brain disease she has,
is that these are often laced with methanol.
That's the third alcohol.
Methanol is just playing with lethal fire
and it's basically Russian roulette.
It's designed to make you violently ill
so people won't drink it.
And then when alcoholics get desperate and drink it anyway,
they do it knowing, "I'm gonna get violently ill,
but I'll get high first and then I'll get violently ill
and then drink it again."
But they don't realize, I mean,
like she's been in a coma like 14 times.
I mean, your chance of waking up for a coma is not good.
And then when you do it 14 times, I mean, it's just,
she's just cheating death.
You've stolen prescription medications.
(sobbing) Yeah.
And you stole them from someone's house.
Yeah. And took their drugs.
I should be in jail right now.
Pardon me?
I should be in jail right now.
Yes, you should, you should.
And you may well be.
So you confess to doing that?
Yeah, I'm gonna be completely honest.
I've never told like anybody else that.
Yeah, but you did that.
I did that.
How many times do you think you've probably done this?
30 times.
Okay.
So on 30 different occasions,
you've gone into people's homes
and stolen their prescription medications.
Yup.
And you confess to that now fully.
Completely.
Her ass needs to be in treatment or jail.
There is no choice C.
It's treatment or jail, or she's gonna be in a,
and she'll be in the ground.
That's just what it is.
Not everybody has a happy ending.
And maybe she'll embrace it and maybe she won't,
but if she doesn't, she needs to be locked up.
And they need to accept that that's the truth.
And so that's,
I find 'em where I find 'em.
You know, that's just the deal.
And so, somebody's got to tell them the truth.
I wish I'd a talked to her mother $100,000 ago.
(laughing)
Really.
I mean, really, think about it.
Her mother has worked, she's a caregiver.
She assists people, you know, health wise in their home.
Think how long she had to work to save up $100,000.
And she got to this age where she had that nest egg.
She's blown it all on this daughter
who never really even attempted to get better.
So at least now, that's over.
She won't be bleeding her.
We'll see.
Good job, Dr. Phil. We'll see.
But maybe with that leverage, she won't run.
(audience applauding)
Anyway, that's the bubble over my head, guys.
Thank you so much, I appreciate it.
Thanks for being here.
You guys are a big part of this show.
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