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My Take
Dr. Drew occupies a space few media figures ever manage: he is genuinely credentialed and genuinely entertaining. Hosting Loveline from 1984 to 2016 means he spent three decades answering late-night questions about love and addiction that most professionals would dodge. I respect that he kept his footing as an internist and addiction medicine specialist while building a broadcast career — the medicine grounded the media, not the other way around. Whether or not you agree with every on-air opinion, his willingness to talk plainly about addiction long before it became a mainstream conversation strikes me as his real legacy.
Overview
David Drew Pinsky (born September 4, 1958), commonly known as Dr. Drew, is an American media personality, internist, and addiction medicine specialist. He hosted the nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline from the show's inception in 1984 until its end in 2016. On television, he hosted the talk show Dr. Drew On Call on HLN and the daytime series Lifechangers on The CW.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Drew Pinsky
- Name (Japanese)
- ドリュー・ピンスキー
- Reading
- どりゅー・ぴんすきー
- Born
- September 4, 1958 (age 67)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Dog
- Origin
- Pasadena, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- radio personality / podcaster / physician / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Amherst College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Loveline | — |
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://drdrew.com/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/drdrewpinsky/
- Xhttps://x.com/drdrew
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew%20Pinsky
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-10
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.