Redmond O'Neal was released to the Pasadena Recovery Center Friday and will return to court in mid-November to asses his therapy progress.
LA Superior Court Judge Keith I. Schwartz mentioned the overcrowding of prison inmates in California as a reason to not send him straight to jail.
Schwartz ordered O'Neal to see two doctors at least once a week while at the center to better monitor his health and psychiatric state. O'Neal will also be drug tested once a week and GPS monitoring will be placed on him.
O'Neal, son of the late actress Farrah Fawcett and actor Ryan O'Neal, was taken into custody last month after it was revealed he violated his probation when he used a phone to arrange for narcotics to be delivered to him in a rehabilitation facility.
O'Neal was able to obtain a cell phone from another resident at the center, said Carol Newman, manager of O'Neal's previous program.
O'Neal was sent to rehab after he was originally charged with heroin and gun possession in August.
