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Drew Pinsky Biography
Drew Pinsky famously known as Dr. Drew is an American celebrity doctor who is board-certified internist, addiction medicine specialist and a media personality. He was born on September 4th, 1958 in Pasadena, California.
He was born to a Jewish family. His father, Morton Pinsky, was a physician and the mother, Helene Stanton, was a singer and actress. He attended Polytechnic School. He then went to Amherst College and majored in biology and he graduated in 1980. He earned his M.D at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1984. He served at USC County Hospital and became a chief resident at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena. He then later moved into the private sector.
Drew Pinsky Age
He was born on September 4th, 1958 in Pasadena, California. He is 61 years old as of 2018.
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He has been married to Susan Pinsky since 1991 and the couple still has no plans of divorcing.
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He has an estimated net worth of $ 20 million.
Drew Pinsky Career
As The New York Times portrayed it in February 2008, Pinsky’s double vocation in drug and the broad communications has expected him to “explore a dubious equalization of polished skill and lewdness.”
In 1984, while still a medicinal understudy, Pinsky began showing up in “Ask a Surgeon”, a section of a Sunday night KROQ-FM show facilitated by Jim “Poorman” Trenton and “Swedish” Egil Dalvik. “Ask the Surgeon” before long joined with “Loveline”, another Sunday night fragment, into its very own demonstration, co-facilitated by Trenton and Pinsky.
Loveline went national in 1995, and the TV adaptation propelled on MTV the next year, facilitated by Pinsky and Adam Carolla. The introduction on both radio and TV made Pinsky the “Gen-X answer to Dr. Ruth Westheimer, with an AIDS-time, ace safe-sex message.”
The MTV show kept running for a long time, while the radio show proceeded until April 2016 with cohost Mike Catherwood. On November 27, 2007, Pinsky started Dr. Drew Live, another broadly syndicated talk radio show where he concentrated on a more extensive scope of medical problems. It started from KGIL in Los Angeles, initially airing weekdays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PT The show was dropped in December 2008.
On January 5, 2015, Pinsky propelled another weekday program, “Dr. Drew Midday Live with Mike Catherwood,” on KABC in Los Angeles. Leeann Tweeden turned into the co-host of the show beginning on January 7, 2019. On April 21, 2016, Pinsky declared Loveline would wrap up on April 28, 2016. Adam Carolla re-went along with him as co-have for the last appear.
Pinsky’s first TV appearance was as a candidate on Wheel of Fortune in 1984, however, he didn’t win. He likewise filled in as “wellbeing and human relations master” on the primary period of the U.S. Television arrangement Big Brother in 2000.
He has likewise facilitated a few shorter instructive TV arrangement, beginning with Strictly Sex with Dr. Drew, which kept running for 10 scenes on the Discovery Health Channel, trailed by Strictly Dr. Drew which tended to regular medical problems. He later facilitated the MTV arrangement Sex…with Mom and Dad (2008–2009).
In 2008, Pinsky featured in Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, an unscripted tv show which includes famous people in a medication restoration office. The show was recorded at Pasadena Recovery Center, with Pinsky filling in as the inhabitant medicinal master.
The arrangement debuted January 10, 2008, on VH-1, and has been restored for different seasons. A subsequent show to Celebrity Rehab with a large number of similar big names was Sober House, which started its first season in January 2009 and included big names from the initial two periods of Celebrity Rehab proceeding with their recuperation in a calm living office. In November 2009, Pinsky featured in a side project of Celebrity Rehab, Sex Rehab with Dr.Drew, which portrayed big names being treated for sexual enslavement through the span of three weeks at the Pasadena Recovery Center.
Pinsky shows up on different news programs where he more often than not gives his perceptions on the connection between controlled substances and prominent people. He has habitually given his perspectives on the passings of individuals, for example, Anna Nicole Smith, Heath Ledger and Michael Jackson, contending that their destinies should set instances of the earnestness of abusing drugs.
Pinsky has acted in a few TV appearances (either depicting himself or an anecdotal character), Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Dawson’s Creek, Family Guy. The Adam Carolla Project, Minoriteam, Robot Chicken, My Gym Partner’s a Monkey and Code Monkeys. Pinsky additionally showed up in the movies New York Minute and Wild Hogs.
In mid-2011, Pinsky started facilitating his own show, Dr. Drew On Call on HLN that spotlights on news including wellbeing and dependence themes. On August 26, 2016, HLN and Pinsky reported that the show’s last scene would be September 22 of that year.
In 1999, Pinsky helped to establish an Internet-based network and exhortation webpage for youngsters called DrDrew.com with Curtis Giesen. Among their initial sponsor was Garage.com. DrDrew.com before long came up short on subsidizing, and the organization was offered to Sherwood Partners Inc., a corporate rebuilding firm, which offered the leftovers to DrKoop.com in November 2000. Pinsky re-obtained the site around 2013 and started utilizing for general data about his books, radio and TV appears, just as facilitating his free web recording, The Dr. Drew Podcast. In September 2012, Pinsky reported on The Adam Carolla Show that he will do a web recording on the Carolla Digital system.
In 2003, Pinsky composed Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again, relating his encounters as the medicinal executive of the Department of Chemical Dependency Services at the Las Encinas Hospital tranquilize recovery center in Pasadena, California. He likewise added to the book When Painkillers Become Dangerous: What Everyone Needs to Know About OxyContin and Other Prescription Drugs, distributed in 2004.
Notwithstanding his media appearances, Pinsky talks at school grounds and other open scenes. At the point when Adam Carolla and Pinsky were joined as hosts of Loveline, Carolla and Pinsky talked at schools. Pinsky was the voice of 1-800-GET-THIN, pushing lap band medical procedure on radio promotions and in a chronicle played for the individuals who called 1-800-GET-THIN.
He additionally showed up with his mutts in a PETA advertisement battle advancing the fixing and fixing of pets. Pinsky likewise described for the 2014 narrative “Separation Corp.” In mid-2019, Pinsky began an online digital recording “Dr. Drew after Dark”. The web recording is facilitated at Tom Seguras “Studio Jeans”.