Mindy McCready marks fifth 'Celebrity Rehab' death

[The Straight Story]

Mindy McCready marks fifth 'Celebrity Rehab' death


The death of country singer Mindy McCready once again casts VH1′s former reality series Celebrity Rehab in a tragic light.

The 37-year-old McCready died Sunday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound following the recent death of her boyfriend David Wilson under similar circumstances. This marks the fifth participant on the show to die in the past two years.

Celebrity Rehab host Dr. Drew Pinsky issued this statement: “I am deeply saddened by this awful news. My heart goes out to Mindy’s family and children. She is a lovely woman who will be missed by many. Although I have not treated her for a few years, I had reached out to her recently upon hearing about the apparent suicide of her boyfriend and father of her younger children. She was devastated. Although she was fearful of stigma and ridicule she agreed with me that she needed to make her health and safety a priority. Unfortunately it seems that Mindy did not sustain her treatment.”

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/02/18/mccready-celebrity-rehab/
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In the past 18 months, four of the past 43 participants in VH1’s Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew have died from either drug use or illnesses related to their drug addictions. The tragic roster includes Alice in Chains’ bassist Mike Starr, 44, actor Jeff Conaway, 60, police brutality victim Rodney King, 47, and reality TV star Joey Kovar, 29.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/13/the-celebrity-rehab-death-trap.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. Was not aware that the bassist for Alice In Chains had died--that band has had some bad luck.

[TM99]

2. Sadly the addiction model

and the rehab industry has for more failures than it does successes.

Dr. Pinsky has made a lot of money off of these poor individuals' dysfunctional behavior.

[Bonobo]

3. Heckuva job, Drewy!

Dr. Drew Pinsky’s relationship with drugmaker raises ethical questions
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-07-06/lifestyle/35489202_1_wellbutrin-drew-pinsky-avandia

For more than a quarter-century, Dr. Drew Pinsky has been a seemingly tireless talker, an interpreter of maladies for audiences on radio, television and the Internet.

The ubiquitous physician with the California-cool vibe, the trim physique and the hipster eyewear has been a television doctor to rehabbing celebs and, in the process, has become a celeb himself.

And now, with the Dr. Drew brand firmly embedded in the national consciousness — at a moment when he regularly spins out best-selling books and hosts or co-hosts not just one, but three shows — Pinsky is becoming a clinical specimen for that most basic of capitalist afflictions: subtle hucksterism. Buried in a gargantuan Justice Department settlement announced this week with the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline are details of a sweet deal Pinsky cut to promote the depression drug Wellbutrin, also known by the name Bupropion.

[zonkers]

4. Holy crap, if you click thru that link to another to

listen to Mcreedy in her last interview, emotionallly recounting how she walked in the house found her late BF dying, brains splattered from a self inflicted wound. Unless I heard it wrong .. though he lived for two more hours, she was not allowed to spend them with him because they were testing her for powder traces to see if she was the one who pulled the trigger.