how often do you see these doc hollywoods coming into the lives of celebrities looking for these powerfulenabling them in this dance? >> my job has become about taking patients, addicts, off substances that my peers give them. this is just what i do all day long. nowhere is that more egregious than with celebrities. if you don't have training in addiction, you can get into a serious situation. >> i just was this little miniature pharmacist. i just was on such vast amounts. i'm just shocked sometimes i lived through that. >> reporter: amber smith >> this is going to bring me down, this is going to keep my going. >> reporter: spent 16 years in the grip of an addiction to prescription drugs. >> i never, ever admitted that i had a problem with drugs ever. >> she was adistricted by the time she was a teen-ager. her original symptoms were pelvis pain, headache, overanxiety and panic. once she found doctors to give her what she wanted, she began believing that she couldn't exist, she couldn't live without those medicines. >> i need opiate because that keeps me alive and functioning. >> she quick