Celebrity treatment centers: rehab or vacation?
Though many celebrities talk about how good they feel after a drug treatment facility, especially since they can afford the crème de la crème in terms of drug rehab, they rarely stick out their newly formed sobriety. Some doctors attribute this to the fact that rehab centers that focus more on luxury and less on treatment.
Another factor stems from how seriously a patient takes their addiction and getting better. Often celebrities enter rehab to make reputation look better or because others in high profile places force them to do it. This was the case with the newly uncrowned Miss USA, Tara Connor, who after an alcoholism intervention from Donald Trump, went into rehab. Photos surfaced of her in comprising positions at a bar with others that tarnished her crown. The rehab center she entered, however, was anything but tarnished. The Caron Center, which is in Wernersville, PA, is set in a hotel with 110 acres to spare. Full of good vibes and good health after exiting, how long her sobriety after her stint in addiction treatment provided will last is probably very short.
Substance abuse centers that focused on celebrities or catered to them tended to be considered harsh experiences only a couple of years ago. Betty Ford is probably the best known example. Celebs definitely wanted to keep their time there a secret. Tabloids, after all, pay great money for photos and stories about the fallen in Hollywood. Now, though, other centers, such as California’s Promises is more of an expensive luxury get away most people might want to win in a sweepstakes than the difficult and soul-changing experience most rehab centers for ordinary Jane and John Doe are. In fact, such high-end residential drug treatment facilities are proud of their reputation and market it accordingly.
An alcohol intervention as a complicated and tumultuous beginning to recovery from substance abuse has now become a status symbol among celebs, similar to having the latest pair of Jimmy Choos. While alcohol and drug addiction are serious problems, the way in which they treated among celebrities is becoming more of a joke. Their status gives them leeway that the economically poor never get. But in a way, this status and latitude is a bad thing. It often allows them copious opportunities to mess up again and again, and thusly more times to possibly die from a problem that should be treated seriously, no matter who the person is.
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