You say you have experienced the addiction of someone close to you, but it doesn't sound to me as if you actually learned anything about the physiology and psychology of addiction, and are still under the impression that it's all a matter of will.

An addict's brain does not work like everyone else's - how else to explain that many people are able to use and/or experiment with drugs of all kinds without ever developing an addiction.  Same with alcohol...millions of people can have a drink when and where they want, can decide whether or if the time and/or occasion is right to drink, have no problem not drinking, don't have to drink before events where there won't be alcohol served in order to "get through" it.  But some don't have the same experience.

Going by the tone and tenor of your comments, I'm guessing you think it's just a matter of exercising control - except that control is the one thing the addict doesn't have.

We can all sit back and look down our noses at Lohan for failing the drug test - for not being grateful enough for the breaks she's gotten to toe the one line the court set for her - but we do so as those who aren't addicted, who don't know what it's like to feel compelled do the very things we know we shouldn't.

If there is a failing here, it was in releasing her from treatment after such a short period of time - it simply wasn't enough time for her to understand herself and develop ways of coping with the things that trigger her to use.

Everyone hits bottom in their own way, but that doesn't mean the people who care about her, and the judicial system in which she is currently caught, can't influence when that happens.  It is impossible for someone using on a regular basis to think rationally until all the drugs and alcohol have cleared the body, and even then, it can be weeks before things start to click.

The positive result came after the judge released Lohan early from inpatient rehab at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Even if Lohan requested it, the judge who authorized the early release IMO make a mistake. Also

The actress is not entirely free. She will be required to wear an ankle alcohol monitor and stay away from establishments that primarily sell alcohol.

Lohan is just one of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States who will spend the night locked in a cage for their drug problems. She has admitted that she has a problem. In recent posts on her Twitter account she wrote, "Substance abuse is a disease, which unfortunately doesn't go away over night," and "I am working hard to overcome it and am taking positive steps." Taking responsibility one's actions is a powerful step in the right direction. HuffPo