Celebrities endure too many "yes people" when sometimes they really need someone to speak the truth. To offer effective treatment, a celebrity must be treated as any other recovering addict within the treatment facility, and should not receive any special treatment away from the needed therapy. For many celebrities, the expectation of privilege and special treatment lies partially at the root of indulgent use behaviors, and celebrities need to relearn that although they may be regarded as special, they are just as fallible and vulnerable as the rest of use.
A celebrity rehab needs to induce lasting change through intensive treatment that has celebrities discover the root causes of their abusive behaviors, and to develop recovery plans that eliminate these triggers to abuse.
A rehab facility that allows for special treatment, that does not require the same therapeutic demands or that otherwise shelters the recovering celebrity addict cannot be considered a quality program likely to induce lasting change and sobriety.
Flesh and bone, celebrities are subject to the same illnesses and conditions as us all, and a weakness for intoxication and corresponding addiction happens just as often amongst the rich and famous as to the rest of us.
Celebrities may have the money to pay for the best in a rehab facility, and they deserve the right to personal privacy, away from prying eyes during a period of recovery back to health. Ultimately though, if the rehab chosen continues to treat the celebrity as something special, something "above the law" then the likelihood that the therapies as offered can induce lasting change are slim.
Because celebrities suffer the same effects of drug addiction, celebrities deserve the same access to those treatments that have been proven to work. For celebrities, equal access to treatment may require tough treatment by addictions councilors who recognize that although the face may be famous, the pains of addiction are universal, and celebrities need tough therapy, education and treatment to break free from a life of abuse.
page last update Aug 05, 2010
