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So with Robbie Williams and Britney Spears going into rehab recently, any bets as to who's next? (Pete Doherty and Kate Moss are ruled out)

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Its some kind of cry for publicity if you ask me, Robbie's has had a bit of a flop with his latest album, Britney's had a total disaster with music and her private life and as for Doherty and Moss they've never done anything useful, oh and lets not forget Jade Goody with the IQ of a dead snail, who's career(did she ever have one?) is in tatters. So they all pop down to rehab and hey presto they get maximum publicity and are happy again. I see that Caprice has become the latest 'showbiz' star to be admitted, these people have all the money, luxuries, fancy houses and lifestyle that some of us less off folks can only dream of, some say that these people just get bored with having everything , so turn to the drugs and alcohol ETC to get new kicks from life. then end up in rehab costing thousands a week, the rehab clinics must be loving it.

Lol Leaat. Think I'll open a rehab clinic. ;D

There is a bit more logic to this trend than the Sun reader fuelled spoilt celebrity headlines would suggest. Addicts, as well as having an obvious inability to control the drug of their choice, always have a number of other symptoms, among which are a very low sense of self worth, paradoxically coupled with gigantic egoes. This results in people with addictive personalities gravitating towards careers that put them in the spotlight, but they then find the inevitable attention unendurable and their ensuing behaviour becomes abnormal, to say the least.

There is, therefore, a disproportionate number of addicts in the entertainment and other high profile professions, and an equally disproportionate number of people that look in from the outside with no understanding of addiction who think its sufferers are all spoilt brats. I?m quite sure some of them are, but for the rest, being an addict/alcoholic isn?t a case of waking up one morning and pulling yourself together. They are born with a genetic predisposition that puts their lives into self-destruct mode from day 1, and they don?t get better with any degree of permanency until they get specific treatment programmes for it designed to bring about a complete psychic change.