Steven Tyler, lead singer of the band Aerosmith, has entered a treatment center for pain management and an addiction to prescription painkillers resulting from 10 years of performance injuries, according to People magazine.
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Pamela Bach, former wife of actor David Hasselhoff, was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol on the 101 freeway near Laurel Canyon Blvd. in southern California, according to People.com. Police say Bach showed blood-alcohol levels of .14 and .13 on a breathalyzer test.
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Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford told rockradio.com that he believes singer Steven Tyler is still struggling with a drug problem.
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Janet Jackson told ABC’s Robin Roberts in an exclusive interview that her family was not naive about Michael Jackson’s drug problem, saying that she reached out to her brother throughout the years, but was unsuccessful.
The family of hitmaker Adam Goldstein (DJ AM) is suing the parties it blames for the late star’s 2008 plane crash, insisting that the incident ultimately caused his death. Goldstein was found dead in his Manhattan apartment in August 2009, and the cause of death was determined to be an overdose of prescription medication.
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Thomas Farley, Jr., brother of the late Saturday Night Live comedian and actor Chris Farley, visited the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater to raise awareness of drug and alcohol abuse in a comedic way.
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Tennis superstar Andre Agassi reveals in his new autobiography that he used crystal meth while playing professional tennis in 1997, and then lied about it to officials after testing positive for drugs.
Agassi, 39, says he hit rock bottom in his career due to a wrist injury that year—and was having serious doubts about his upcoming marriage to actress Brooke Shields—when his assistant, “Slim,” offered him the drug, according to an excerpt in The Times of London.
A psychiatrist who treated Anna Nicole Smith for drug dependency during her pregnancy said she tried to set up a program to wean her off prescription painkillers but found the celebrity model uncooperative and hostile during her stay in the hospital.
An alcohol addiction expert has told RadarOnline.com that David Hasselhoff will die unless he can overcome his addiction to alcohol.
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Singer and actress Fergie (born Stacy Ferguson) has admitted that as a teenager, she became addicted to illegal drugs in an attempt to escape her troubles. Fergie has been clean for more than ten years, but is only now revealing that her pre-fame drug addiction left her paranoid and delusional.
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