My only reason for watching "Celebrity Fit Club 3" left the show after it was revealed on the most recent episode that Jeff Conaway was indeed doing more than Benadryl. Much more.
VH1 faced a tough choice: Either lose their most compelling ratings draw, or potentially lose Conaway's train wreck of a life with cameras rolling. Remarkably, reality TV took the high road.
Producers staged an intervention and brought in a TV doctor, Drew Pinsky, for on-air counseling before shuttling Jeff into detox. (The counseling session occurred, incidentally, after Jeff overdosed and was rushed to a hospital. He was later replaced on "Fit Club" by the not-really-fat-at-all Gunnar Nelson.)
Let's recap what our own armchair MDs thought Jeff was on:
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It turns out that Jeff is actually taking enough depressants to bring down a grown hippo. His daily fix includes:
• Alcohol (undetermined amount).
• "Benzoids" (undetermined amount). I had never even heard of these before. But I guess it sounds like Benadryl. Benzoids, or Benzodiazepines, are a family of drugs that include Valium, Librium, Ativan, Klonopin, Halcion, and several others including ...
• ... Xanax (six pills per day, or 12mg).
• And finally, Norco, also known as Vicodin or hydrococone (one to three pills per day, equivalent to six Vicodin).
Malcontent voters correctly guessed that alcohol and Xanax were in the mix, but I made the mistake of not including Norco or Benzoid among the nominees. So congratulations, voters, you're now as qualified to make diagnoses as Bill Frist!
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