Some people seem to spend their time going in and out of rehab, so how can they kick their addiction once and for all.
It seems that a regular stint in a rehabilitation clinic has become an expected part of many celebrities’ lives, usually following some kind of spectacularly humiliating – and career-threatening – lapse into addiction.
It’s often portrayed as an act of contrition, a public demonstration of their willingness to put their demons behind them. But many such clinics appear to have a revolving door, with celebrity addicts checking in to dry out, then resuming their self-destructive habits when they’re back in the real world, before eventually ending up in a sorry state back at the clinic again.
It’s a well-worn path, with the likes of Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan providing endless fodder for the gossip columns with their repeated stays in expensive addiction units. The late Amy Winehouse was notorious for her ambivalent relationship with rehab: she checked herself out of the Priory clinic in London just weeks before her death.
Source: Fionola Meridith, Irish times, 16/08/2011
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