Nancy Grace Last Night:
NANCY GRACE, HOST: Straight out to Brad Lamm, board certified interventionist www.changesomeoneyoulove.com. Brad, thank you for being with us.
BRAD LAMM, BOARD REGISTERED INTERVENTIONIST, CHANGESOMEONEYOULOVE.COM: Thank you.
GRACE: You`re hearing all this about a staged intervention, Jackson locking the family out of Neverland, sticking his fleet of bodyguards on his own family. Not taking calls from his 79-year-old mother. That`s not unusual behavior for a drug addict.
But, Brad, here`s my question. To use this drug, as like your sedative, in the OR, the operating room, you`ve got to be hooked in. That means the doctor has got to be there the whole time you`re hooked in and we know the personal chef that we just saw says he sees oxygen tanks coming in and out and that a doctor would come at night and leave in the morning.
LAMM: Well, I think it`s speaks to the relationship between a person and the drug which is as close as a lover. You know when you step in and try to intervene, it`s like pealing the bark off the trees. So as we here reports about them trying to step in, they did a few things that could have been better.
One, showing up en mass and not taking no for an answer. Really, at an intervention NO is a conversation starter. And, two, and this is really important and I think a lot of people can relate to this. If the kids are involved like in this case they were, you step in and you get the kids out of the situation and oftentimes that will be the thing that will help break through the denial of addiction.
GRACE: But it`s just amazing to me that a doctor — can you just imagine.
LAMM: But Nancy.
GRACE: Can you conjure up the image of a doctor there in a mobile unit, a van, shooting Jackson up and keeping the catheter in the arm overnight?
LAMM: Unfortunately, I can. And if you and I were to step out the studio here at CNN and walk two blocks, we could get these drugs and other drugs within blocks of CNN here. It`s just that easy.
GRACE: Diprivan? You can get that.
LAMM: Absolutely.
GRACE: How?
LAMM: There are just that many doctors.
GRACE: I`ve never in all my years of prosecuting drug use, drug trafficking, I`ve never heard of a Diprivan addict, ever.
LAMM: Well, I think if you can equate a drug dealer with a doctor that`s mis-prescribing, you`ve got a pretty good correlation there.
GRACE: Have you ever seen a case where somebody takes Diprivan every night to sleep intravenously?
LAMM: I haven`t seen Diprivan but I`ve seen other intravenous opiate to use like this.
GRACE: Overnight?
LAMM: To sleep.
GRACE: Or 10 straight hours?
LAMM: I`ve never seen anything like this, to be honest. Yes.
GRACE: You said we could get it a block from CNN?
LAMM: No, I`m sure we could go get Diprivan, though.