<![CDATA[Jezebel: addiction nonfiction]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: addiction nonfiction]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/addictionnonfiction http://jezebel.com/tag/addictionnonfiction <![CDATA[Sober House: It's Hard To Tell When Andy Dick Is Joking]]> On last night's finale of Sober House, Andy Dick chose to make amends with his 20-year-old son. Knowing him as a comedian, it's hard to tell when he's serious.

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<![CDATA[Jeff Conaway Leaves Celebrity Rehab, Abuses Drugs Within Minutes]]> With just a few days before graduation, Jeff Conaway was thrown out of rehab on last night's episode for getting violent with his girlfriend in the facility. He immediately went home and popped some Oxy.

Jeff didn't even get out of his pajama pants before leaving treatment. He just picked up his cane and took off with his girlfriend, Vicky, who was also a patient at the Pasadena Recovery Center. He whined continually throughout this season of Celebrity Rehab that he wasn't being treated properly. (His version of being treated properly is being allowed to take pain meds and muscle relaxers.) The first thing he did when he walked into his house was rifle through a plastic drawer, going through bottles and bottles of pills. After he took a very strong painkiller, he held up two fistfuls of pills and shook them menacingly at the camera. It's safe (and sad) to say that he's effectively off the wagon.

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<![CDATA[Intervention: Addict Is A "Lady Of Leisure"]]> The middle-aged, alcoholic sex addict on last night's Intervention is demonstrative of why some people's "drunk slut" phases should eventually come to an end.

Janet's first husband was a millionaire drug trafficker, but she left him after all of their assets were seized by the government. The second time around, she married for love, but missed the money and partying lifestyle. However, the lack of the former did not keep her from pursuing the latter: Her second husband has filed for divorce, she's taken up with a 75-year-old boyfriend who lives in a trailer park, her wardrobe is limited to bikinis and sarongs, and she drinks a gallon of white wine a day. She refers to herself as a "lady of leisure."

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<![CDATA[Former Patient Returns To Celebrity Rehab With Crack, Heroin, And Hamsters]]> Thanks to tonight's episode of Celebrity Rehab it's easy to see why re-admitted patient Shifty named his band Crazytown. It perfectly describes his drug-addled fits.

Shifty was a patient on the first season of the show, and is now back after suffering a relapse and a severe bender which involved booze, crack, coke, heroin, and Ecstasy. He returned to the facility, but refused to enter, and instead hung out on the roof to smoke his last hit of crack and talk to the "tree people" that help "analyze what we do." After he finished his drugs, he decided to enter the building, wearing a rice paddy hat and carrying two hamsters. He then swallowed a balloon of heroin "for later." Clip above.

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<![CDATA[Who Told Sean Stewart That He's "A Waste Of Sperm And Egg?"]]> Sean Stewart is the 28-year-old son of Alanna and Rod Stewart and has been battling drug addiction since high school. He's been in and out of treatment programs throughout adulthood and is now one of the cast members of Celebrity Rehab. He's pretty much remained low key, but during a group session on last night's episode, he opened up about the root of the self hate that has fuelled his addictions, which he says are caused by insecurity over occasional erectile dysfunction, penis size, and the fact that, when he was 11, someone called him "a waste of sperm and egg." Dr. Drew asked who said that to him, and although it's bleeped out, it seems like he says "my fucking father." Clip above.

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<![CDATA[Celebrity Rehab: Two Grown Men + Calling Shotgun = Screaming Match]]> It's already been established on Celebrity Rehab (and on the red carpet) that Gary Busey is kinda insane in the membrane, stemming from a motorcycle accident in the early '80s. Jeff Conaway, on the other hand, is sort of a big baby. (He called 911 because the rehab facility would not give him painkillers.) Anyway, the two ended up having a huge, dramatic fight, throwing f-bombs all over the place…over who got shotgun in the rehab van on the way back from art therapy. As you can see in the clip above, the two end up making up and have a little love fest, in which Gary claims he loves Jeff "5,000 miles past Heaven," whatever that means.

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<![CDATA[Celebrity Rehab: Jeff Conaway Literally Wants To Kill His Girlfriend]]> Jeff Conaway has returned for a second season of Celebrity Rehab and he's in even more physical pain than before because his girlfriend kicked him in the back (where he's had surgery) "five times." Vikki is at the Pasadena Recovery Center as well, but being treated in a wing with other non-celebrity patients. After Jeff confided in Dr. Drew that he wanted to kill Vikki, Dr. Drew decided that it was important to mediate a discussion between the couple. I know that they're both addicts and this is not supposed to be funny, but the fact that these two love their camera time so much, and have admitted to playing up the drama, makes the reality of the situation a little more comical. For example, Vikki claims that she kicked Jeff in self-defense because he was calling 911, because whenever he does that, she gets thrown in jail. Clip above.

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