LOS ANGELES — Before she met Dr. Shayan Rab, Diana Silveria was the daughter of Elvis Presley, hanging out with Lynyrd Skynyrd on a skid row sidewalk.
Three weeks later, Silveria, 51, was taking medication and slowly coming to reality in a room at the Russ, a single-room-occupancy hotel.
Under Rab's care she was beginning to piece together shards of memories — from her childhood in California to her mother's phone number. She had agreed to Rab's plan to move, once she'd fully stabilized, into long-term residential treatment away from the mayhem of the streets she'd been living on.
