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...Just Shoot Me star David Spade joked, "I found 10 Vicodin in my gift basket." Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole Smith, Chevy Chase and quarterback Brett Favre have been addicted to prescription drugs. Friends' Matthew Perry, who has admitted that he was hooked on Vicodin, last month returned to rehab for unspecified reasons. "An addiction to prescribed pain pills can happen to anyone," says Melanie Griffith in her online "Recovery Journal," "and you have to be careful...
...survey on drug abuse, about 1.5 million people started taking prescription painkillers for "nonmedical" purposes in 1998--nearly three times the number who started in 1990. "There are two reasons that people are abusing prescription pain medications," says David Rolston, a program director at Santa Monica's Clare Foundation rehab center. "They can be used as supplements to street opiates like heroin, and there isn't the same stigma associated with them...
...Keith is pulling an image rehab that would make Nixon proud. With public opinion turning against Jerri, the whiny, sad-sack chef to the stars (two presidents, he said) is looking socially acceptable and a cool hand at the immunity challenges to boot. Tina gave him the last one, but this week's - a seriously convoluted pole-and-rope puzzle in which the most squares won - was all Chef. Following Jerri, he slapped down 17 placards like he was afraid of running out of them, and sweetest of sweet ironies, it was Jerri...
CHECKED IN. Friends co-star MATTHEW PERRY, 31; to an undisclosed drug-and-alcohol rehab center; at his doctors' behest. Perry, who had been pulling double duty on the sets of Friends and a new film, Servicing Sarah, did time in rehab in 1997 for addiction to the painkiller Vicodin...
Kowal was a key player on the 1998 team as a freshman. She had hoped to carry that success through the rest of her career, but the following season, a twisted vertebrae in her neck significantly limited her activity over her next two seasons. Months of rehab finally paid off this season, as Kowal has started nearly every game...