If someone you know is suffering please be sure he or she gets help and maintains treatment. The network then launched Rehab with Dr. Drew last year featuring non-celebrity participants. One could try judging Celebrity Rehab for its questionable entertainment value instead of its questionable therapeutic value.
No way to control a reaction, but you could probably predict it. The series seemingly wanted to demonstrate the serious consequences of addiction and the importance of seeking treatment. Mindy McCready marks fifth 'Celebrity Rehab' death. There are many who feel uncomfortable about this type of treatment being aired on TV as a form of entertainment.
There are also concerns that she may have been allowed to leave the show too early. It does seem as if Mindy was deeply embarrassed about the fact that her private life became so public, and it seems that the death of her boyfriend was the thing that pushed her over the edge.
Many are wondering whether her death might have been prevented if she had continued to get help for her addiction problems. Mindy McCready had a troubled life, and in the end, she felt completely overwhelmed by things.
It seems apparent that at the end of her life she had no real support; she had stopped getting help for her addiction problems a couple of years before. Her continued substance abuse meant that her children ended up being taken away from her, and this added greatly the level of stress she was under.
According to an ex-boyfriend, for the last month of her life she was not even bathing anymore. It is difficult to say exactly how much substance abuse contributed to the death of Mindy McCready but there is no doubt that it played a major role.
There is also little doubt that many of her problems were related to alcohol and drug abuse. EMAIL: info addiction. Drew said in a statement posted in a VH1 blog. She is a lovely woman who will be missed by many. Drew said that he had not treated McCready for a few years, but "reached out to her recently" after her boyfriend and father of one of her two children David Wilson, committed suicide in January.
Although she was fearful of stigma and ridicule she agreed with me that she needed to make her health and safety a priority," Dr. Drew said. McCready was ordered to enter rehab shortly after Wilson's death, and her two children, Zander, 6, and 9-month-old Zayne were taken from her.
She was released after one day to undergo outpatient care. Click here for more on McCready's death. His long battle with drug and alcohol abuse led to him being asked to leave the show, according to his "Celebrity Rehab" bio. He struggled with alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs as well as steroids as part of his bodybuilding, according to the show's website. On Aug. He was 29 and left behind a 3-year-old son and a 2-year-old daughter.
He became a symbol for police brutality and the strained relations between the LAPD and minorities. Four LAPD officers were tried for excessive force and their April acquittal ignited one of the worst and most expensive urban riots in U.
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