What’s your first memory of an anti-drug commercial? An egg frying in a pan and a voice saying, “This is your brain on drugs,” is a common answer. It seems the “scared straight” approach to inducing a fear of drugs – remember the shotgun wielding teen that killed his friend after smoking dope – hasn’t come far. Now in YouTube clips promoting a new show called Celebrity Rehab, Dr. Drew Pinksy of Love Line fame will attempt to reinvent the genre. Watch a clip here of Crazy Town’s Seth Binzer apparently free-basing crack and explaining its dangers and consequences.

In another clip you can watch here, Jeff Conway from Taxi snorts a line of pablum, which he says he uses “to go to the bathroom because of all the pills that the doctors put me on.” It’s unclear whether the intention of the clip is to simulate cocaine use, or if it’s a message to stay away from doctors.

Both clips, attempting to move the anti-drug message into the 21st century, fall short, at first glance, because of their falsities. What’s the point of Conway snorting pablum? What’s a teen to gain from that?

Celebrity Rehab debuts on VH1 on January 10, according to Fox News. Other celebrities expected to participate include actor Daniel Baldwin, actress Brigitte Nielsen, former pro wrestler Chyna, American Idol finalist Jessica Sierra, and porn star and California governor candidate Mary Carey, the New York Post reports.

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