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Britney Spears will now play the ADD card in court tomorrow, arguing that her medication caused a positive reading on a drug test last week.
As we first reported, a source connected to Britney first said Provigil, a drug used to treat narcolepsy, was the cause of the false positive. But then TMZ reported that Provigil would not show up on a court-ordered drug test.
Then Brit's peeps said the reason for the positive reading was that she has asthma, and used an inhaler of Albuterol. But then we reported the drug Brit tested positive for...
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Britney Spears has not failed a drug test. A source close to the pop star tells OK! the widespread reports are “100 percent not true.”
“The only thing that came up on the results was the prescriptions the court doctor prescribed. There has been no illegal drugs or even alcohol in any of the results.”
The drug that showed up in the results is Provigil, an anti-narcolepsy drug, which Brit has been photographed carrying. The source goes on to say if the 25-year-old had flunked, her visitation rights with her sons, Sean Preston, 2,...
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Britney Spears did not respond to eight of 14 random drug test requests, Kevin Federline's attorney said in court Thursday.
Alleging the singer lives in a "parallel universe," lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan reminded the court that the singer had been reprimanded three times by Commissioner Scott Gordon for failing to be reachable by phone.
"Mr. Federline doesn't want to take these children out of their mother's life, but what are we to do?" Kaplan said.
Spears's lawyer, Anne Kiley, called the current drug testing procedure...
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Lawyers for K-Fed and Britney are in the hallway outside the courtroom right now, discussing whether Lynne Spears, Britney's mother, can be appointed by the court as a monitor -- and spend the night with Brit and her children.
We're told Brit has trust issues, and now that she has reconciled with mommy, she wants Lynne to be the one to stay overnight when her sons visit. We hear K-Fed's attorneys are opposed to t
Britney Spears‘ dad Jamie Spears is reportedly looking into staging an intervention to persuade his daughter to get help.
Britney became estranged from her parents earlier this year after feeling they and her then-manager Larry Rudolph conspired to “push” her into rehab, but is said to have reconciled with her mum Lynne Spears this weekend. Yet the tension the previous “push” caused, Jamie is considering doing it again.
A source close to the family told the Sun: “[Jamie] is consulting lawyers about the best way to help...
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Britney Spears's attorney says the singer has been passing her court-ordered random drug tests.
"She's passed her random drug tests," her lawyer, Sorrell Trope, tells PEOPLE exclusively. "There's been more than one. They came up negative."
Trope said the singer's chances of regaining 50-50 custody of sons Sean Preston, 2, and Jayden James, 1, are "good, based on the overall circumstances of the case."
A spokesperson for the court would not comment on the drug tests. Kevin Federline's lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan was not immediately...
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The declaration, filed today by Shawn Chapman Holley, Nicole's lawyer, states, "Dr. Terence McGee as a defense expert ... will challenge the prosecutor's scientific evidence and the conclusions reached by the drug recognition expert."
The pregnant Richie's trial was set to begin tomorrow morning. Chapman Holley appeared before the Commissioner today and asked for a continuance until August 5, because Dr. McGee is not available until then. The commissioner ordered them back to court tomorrow to decide whether he will grant the request for a...
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"I've never touched a drug in my life. Until recently, I didn't even know what crystal meth was. And I haven't known the name of a diet drug since Dexatrim in the 80s. The only person I've told to lose weight is my mom."
Former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson has been indicted on charges of drug possession and driving under the influence of drugs. The 40-year-old was indicted Friday on felony drug possession and paraphernalia possession counts and two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of drugs. If convicted of all four charges, he could be sentenced to up to 7 1/2 years in prison, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said.
The charges stem from Tyson's Dec. 29 arrest in Scottsdale. Tyson was pulled over after leaving a nightclub, and an...
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British pop star George Michael insists he doesn’t have a drug problem, despite being arrested for alleged marijuana possession for the second time in a year on Sunday.
The former Wham! singer, 43, was found asleep at the wheel on his car at an intersection in north London in the early hours of Sunday morning and was taken to a nearby hospital by concerned police officers.
After being given the all-clear by doctors, Michael returned to Colindale police station, where he was booked on suspicion of being unfit to drive and drug...
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