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On AlterNet: rehab

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "rehab"

Lohan, Hilton, Spears: The Media's Insatiable Appetite for Celebrity Addicts

Lohan, Hilton, Spears: The Media's Insatiable Appetite for Celebrity Addicts

Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich, Women's eNews. September 17, 2007.
Tabloid entertainment media makes young female celebrities with drug problems seem chic while trivializing the depth of the addictions that they, along with thousands of other women, face.

Memo to Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Al Gore III: Drug Treatment Isn't a Silver Bullet

Memo to Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Al Gore III: Drug Treatment Isn't a Silver Bullet

Anthony Papa, AlterNet. August 3, 2007.
It is time to treat addiction for what it is, a medical problem, not a criminal one -- even for celebrities who rely on rehab clinics to bail them out and continue driving down that road to oblivion.