During her special TV interview with Dr. Drew, Amber admitted that she was so addicted to drugs, she didn't care about anything else -- not even her 3-year-old daughter Leah.
Amber Portwood revealed to
Dr. Drew Pinksy during her MTV special
Amber Portwood Behind Bars that she didn't just occasionally abuse prescription pills -- she was a hardcore drug addict. And nothing else, not even her daughter
Leah Shirley, 3, mattered to her.
We watched Amber in rehab during the final season of
Teen Mom, but the 22-year-old said she didn't get anything out of it. "I was still doing drugs," she said. "I started to move to harder drugs." Those harder drugs were fentanyl patches, which are highly concentrated and highly dangerous pain killers that come in the form of a gel. While patients with severe and chronic pain are supposed to wear the plastic patches on their skin to be absorbed, Amber was ingesting them directly through her mouth -- and Dr. Drew said that is an easy way to overdose and die. Amber said she understood she was in that kind of danger, but she didn't care. "Even Leah didn't matter do you?" Dr. Drew asked. "No, nothing mattered to me," she said. "It's
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