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Demi Lovato is in no shape to talk about going to rehab , even though friends and family say she needs it to save her life.
Sources with firsthand knowledge tell us the people in contact with her have not even broached the subject of rehab , because she' s still not out of the woods after her overdose a week ago .
As we reported , she is still very ill , suffering from extreme nausea and a high fever , among other things .
We ' re told doctors are not even predicting when she might get out of the hospital, so there' s still time to discuss . Multiple people who have had contact with Demi tell us they have no idea how she will receive the message that she desperately needs rehab . As one source said, " We just don ' t know where her head is at . "
Demi can 't be forced to go to rehab . .. it will have to be her decision . The good news . .. she' s been receptive about rehab - - she went there in 2010, although she said at the time it was for an eating disorder . She has also celebrated her sobriety in the past, so from all signs she wants to regain it.
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Demi Lovato ' s team tried to stage an intervention and get her help for her drug addiction , but the singer blew them off . .. TMZ has learned .
Sources close to Demi tell us members of her team noticed she was in a bad place a few weeks ago , and even confronted her about it. We ' re told they offered assistance to get her back to sobriety. The plan was to urge her into a rehab program .
We ' re told the intervention attempt was not successful -- Demi refused and continued to party , instead.
Other sources tell us she tried to make it seem like everything was okay, but her struggle became obvious shortly before Tuesday 's overdose .
There ' s also this -- Lovato and her longtime manager, Phil McIntyre , parted ways a couple months ago . Although neither has said why they broke off their professional relationship . .. we ' re told Phil had a hand in the intervention efforts.
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Demi Lovato did not OD on heroin .. . so says a source connected to the singer .
TMZ broke the story .. . law enforcement sources involved in the case told us it was an apparent heroin overdose , but the source close to Demi says no .
The source would not reveal what drug caused her to OD, but as we reported she was given Narcan , which is used to counter the effects of opioids .
Lovato had previously struggled with cocaine and Oxycontin addictions but had been clean for 6 years. She recently confessed she fell off the wagon .
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Demi Lovato refused to tell paramedics what drug caused her to overdose , and law enforcement sources say no drugs were seized at her home .
Law enforcement sources say Lovato was not cooperative when EMTs worked on her at her home Tuesday morning. Those sources believed it was a heroin OD based on what they observed at her home , but a source close to Lovato tells us it was not heroin , though the source refused to divulge what caused the OD.
As we first reported , Demi was unconscious when paramedics arrived and she was brought back to consciousness with Narcan , which is used to counter the effects of opioids .
Our law enforcement sources say there is NO criminal investigation , because they did not seize any drugs and can' t determine if Demi was in possession of an illegal substance .
Demi is recovering in the hospital.
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