Overcoming Addiction with Star Power: Celebrity Sobriety Success Stories

CELEBRITY SOBRIETY SUCCESS STORIES OVERCOMING ADDICTION with star pomen * Robert Downey, Jr. AGE: 47 ENTERED REHAB: 2003 TREATMENT FOR: Cocaine, crack, heroin 1996-2000 In prison for drug charges "Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention." 8 AGE DRUG USE STARTED Russell Brand AGE: 37 ENTERED REHAB: 2002 "Without abstinence-based recovery, I'm a highly defective individual.. But if I seek the company and fellowship of other addicts and alcoholics.. I have a chance of living free from this disease. I wouldn't be able to do it without that." TREATMENT FOR: Heroin, sex, alcohol 12 ARRESTS PRIOR TO REHAB Alec Baldmin "God got me sober. That day, God was a black, 65-year-old retired postal worker named Lenny. Lenny said, 'You never have to feel this way again if you don't want to." AGE: 54 ENTERED REHAB: 1985 TREATMENT FOR: Alcohol, cocaine 4PM TYPICAL TIME HE STARTED DRINKING AND DRIVING EACH DAY Jamie lee Curtis AGE: 54 ENTERED REHAB: 1999 TREATMENT FOR: Alcohol, prescription "Getting sober was the single bravest thing l've ever done and will ever do in my life." painkillers 35 AGE WHEN PAINKILLER ADDICTION STARTED AFTER COSMETIC SURGERY Nicole Richie "I've been sober March (2003). No drinking, no drugs, and I have someone who checks up on me. And I am definitely happier now." AGE: 31 ENTERED REHAB: 2003 TREATMENT FOR: Heroin, eating disorder 3 YRS PROBATION - 2003 sentence for driving without a license, heroin possession 83 LBS EIAS WEIGHT WHEN CHECKED Kelly Osborne AGE: 28 ENTERED REHAB: 2009 "After 30 days, I left rehab. For the first time, I felt hopeful. I knew l'd been given another chance at my life, at my career, at happiness. I wanted to grab it." TREATMENT FOR: Prescription painkillers 50 NUMBER OF VICODIN PILLS TAKEN PER DAY BY AGE 17 INFOGRAPHIC PROVIDED BY: Hits THE TREATMENT CENTER www.thehillstreatmentcenter.com http://www.people.com/paople/archiva/article/0.20149003,00.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/cultura/2012/aug/12/russell-brandmathadone-treating herain-addicts http://www.tydailynewa.com/entertainmant/gossip/iran-man actareabert- downay-jr-tells- ralling slone-prison-heroin-cocainefuture-article-1.163247 http://en.wikipedio.org/wiki/Robert Downey. J http://en.wikipedio.org/wiki/Russel Brand http://en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec Baldwin http://www.everydoyhaalth.com/addiction-pictures/0302/ celubrities-who-beataddiction.aspa /alide-5 Ip.//www.ypusU/p/ww/uiluul item_asYDBUgsSeGoSKezihMjsessionid-5OECDBACC87CBAFAASCF3EC263E08387