All these rehab centers for celebs do is put the addict’s life on “pause”, then after some weeks or months they release the patient “unpause” back into their old life and the vast majority simply return to living with substance abuse.
That’s more money for them though. If celeb rehab services had even a 50% better success rate can you imaging how much money they would loose? Celeb rebab is like the cruise-ship industry, they love repeat customers!
Here’s my idea of rehab for Whitney or anyone else. The addict would be assigned a live-in Sobriety Gaurdian. Someone who’s by their side through 1, 3 or 6 months in their day to day life helping them learn to live life without substances. That Gaurdian would also interact with family and close friends giving them suggestions and ideas to help. How often are drug addicts found dead… alone, huh? Teach them how to stay close and busy with love ones and life and help the fam/friends around them to see the need keep them interactive and busy, even if its just phone calls (depending on full circumstances/risks involed).
Stars have reality TV cameras that follow them through their entire day. So why not someone follow you without a camera who has your back and there to help you find your old self, to help you re-integrate with fam/friends and a life WITHOUT dependence on substances.
Till then, we’ll just keep finding more celebs and people like Whitney, who repeated rehab in May 2011, now found dead. :(
