Troubled Celebrities

If you’re looking for a good reason to get yourself some help for drug or alcohol addiction you don’t have to look much further than Whitney Houston’s tragic early death at only 48 years old.

• Patrick Kennedy: Patrick Kennedy to Pen Addiction Memoir

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Like a sobering warning on the dangers of binge drinking - even for very experienced drinkers - the coroner’s report lists death by misadventure as the cause of death and a BAC at death of more than 5 times the legal limit.

• Binge Drinking: July 4th - Spike in ER Visits for Teen Boys
• Alcohol and Heart Health: Binge Drinking Doubles Risk of Heart Attack
• Binge Drinking: No Decline in Binge Drinking Over last 15 Years

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SNL star Darrell Hammond found fame for his legendary portrayals of Bill Clinton, Al Gore and others, but behind the bright lights he struggled with the legacy of a terribly abusive childhood and with cutting, drinking and cocaine.

• Cocaine Effects: Use Cocaine Now - Go Blind Decades Later?
• Harm Reduction: Vancouver Will Supply Crack Pipes to Users
• Cocaine Abuse: Tainted Cocaine Causing Skin Rot

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Describing being bundled into the back of a bread van to avoid paparazzi as he began his trip to rehab 18 months ago, Ronnie Wood talks about rehab and sobriety and thanks UK artist Damien Hirst for the intervention that got his recovery started.

• Alcohol Abuse: Intervention Text Messages Reduce Drinking
• Quick and Easy Online Intervention Helps Problem Drinkers Cut-Down by 30%
• Online Alcohol Intervention Reduces College Drinking by 17%

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Boxing’s golden boy says recovering from alcohol and cocaine addictions is the toughest fight of his life.

• Cocaine Addiction Treatment: Cocaine Addiction: New Meds Seem to Help
• Cocaine Addiction Treatment Medications: Diabetes Med Stops Cocaine High
• Alcoholic Brain Damage: Abstinence: Substantial Brain Healing after 2 Weeks

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George Webley, known on air as Big George, died from a fatal heart attack after taking the designer club drug mephedrone, which is also popularly known as meow meow.

• Club Drug Addiction: Club Drug Rehab Opens in UK
• Legal Highs: Designer Drugs Sold Legally as ‘Bath Salts’
• Mephedrone: UK Gov Bans Mephedrone

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Amy Winehouse’s last month is a tragic downward spiral of vodka and drugs.

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Disney star, 18 year old Demi Lovato, talks about her recovery from bulimia, bipolar, anorexia, depression and cutting.

• Social Contagion: Study: Depression Risk Is Contagious
• Stress and Mental Illness: Teen Stress Ups Adult Mental Illness Risk
• Depression Research: Diet Soda Drinkers More Prone to Depression

Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife Brooke Mueller is reportedly heading to Mexico for 7 days of addiction treatment with Ibogaine, an experimental hallucinogenic drug that is said to interrupt addiction to drugs such as opiates, alcohol and cocaine.

• Ayahuasca: Hallucinogen Ayahuasca Used to Treat Addiction

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Few people have done as much to destigmatize alcoholism and drug addiction as former First Lady Betty Ford, who overcame lifelong prescription pill and alcohol addictions in the late 1970’s and then went on to found one of the nation’s leading addiction treatment facilities, The Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage California.

• Addicts Fear Job Loss: Employees Fear Job Loss If They Get Help for Addiction
• Poll: Mental Illness?

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Glee star Cory Monteith reveals history of drug addiction and rehab and admits that he’s lucky to be alive today.

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20 000 fans booed the obviously very intoxicated Winehouse as she struggled to make it through the set of her European tour kickoff show in Belgrade.

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On the day of his 70th birthday, just released tapes reveal Bob Dylan’s addiction to heroin during the early days of his career in New York.

• Drug Treatments: Heroin Vaccine Shows Promise

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Former Olympic gold medalist and world boxing champion Oscar De lay Hoya now fights addiction in an undisclosed California drug rehab.

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Friends star Matthew Perry has announced that he will head enter into a rehab for a 30 day program as a preventative move as he continues in his recovery from alcohol and prescription pill addiction.