Aerosmith Frontman Steven Tyler Checks Into Rehab, So Much For Sobriety
Steven Tyler, lead singer for mega-rock group Aerosmith has checked into a rehab facility in California, at Las Encinas Hospital according to TMZ. The article claims he is getting treated for a substance abuse problem at the same facility where “Celebrity Rehab” is filmed with rehab specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky.
Well, I guess this means the group’s whole pledge to sobriety thing failed. Back in the 80’s after managing to derail their career because of excessive addictions to alcohol and heroin, the group talked Steven into entering rehab in a bid to get their music careers back on track. Steven emerged rehab successfully and has managed to stay sober (as far as we know) for over 20 years. With Steven as an example, the entire band entered rehab, each successfully kicking their habits and pledging to live a drug-free life, going so far as to have their road-crew avoid drugs and alcohol.
Some demons come back to haunt you, and for Steven this must come a real set back to those who know and love him, like his four children, including famous actress daughter Liv from his relationship with rock n’ roll babe Bebe Buell (while she was with singer/songwriter Todd Rundgren) and his bandmates.
No word yet on what substance is in question, but Tyler was known for being heavily addicted to heroin. God Speed man, get your ass clean!
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Good luck to you Steven!! Hugs and kisses….
Comment by D-Bomb — May 21, 2008 @ 6:07 pm
At least he recognized he has a problem and is taking the correct steps to take care of it. Good on ‘im.
It just goes to show that an addict makes a decision every single day to not pick up the addictions again. I wish him all the best.
Comment by k — May 21, 2008 @ 6:23 pm
With any luck, he checked in during an early relapse. Perhaps it’s even a sort of pre-emptive attempt to battle some demons. No matter what, thank God he did it before he was out driving around and risking lives.
Rock on, Steven!
Comment by Joanie — May 22, 2008 @ 1:56 am
All the best with your recovery Steve. It takes a real man to face up to his demons and deal with them.
Love and hugs…
Comment by Gayle — May 22, 2008 @ 4:47 am
I thought he was a cokehead? I seem to recall a statement from him about how his entire fortune had gone up his nose. I mean, yes, you can snort heroin, too, but it’s not very common as far as I’m aware…
Anyway, I hope he gets it together again.
Comment by Exyank — May 22, 2008 @ 6:06 am
Good luck to him. And I have to say, his skin is in pretty nice condition for an grizzled old doper geezer, wow. Compare his to Amy’s.
Comment by Capcom — May 22, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
I hardly call 20 years of sobriety a “failure”!
Geez, whether you believe it or not, addiction/alcoholism is recognized as a BRAIN DISEASE
by the medical field. He had a relapse in his recession of drug use. A lot has happened to him, a divorce for one thing and I can almost guarantee that it didn’t help his sobriety.
He has not failed after staying clean for TWENTY YEARS!
He slipped up and he’s getting help to get on track again. It’s very rare that addicts can do it alone -
. It’s like a diabetic treating diabetes without a doctor’s advise.
I am guessing he got hooked on pain killers.
He had a lot of pain with throat surgery and Chemotherapy.
TWENTY YEARS of sobriety is a success, not a failure.
Comment by Sue F. — May 23, 2008 @ 2:16 am
I hardly call 20 years of sobriety a “failureâ€!
Geez, whether you believe it or not, addiction/alcoholism is recognized as a BRAIN DISEASE
by the medical field. He had a relapse in his recession of drug use. A lot has happened to him, a divorce for one thing and I can almost guarantee that it didn’t help his sobriety.
He has not failed after staying clean for TWENTY YEARS!
He slipped up and he’s getting help to get on track again. It’s very rare that addicts can do it alone -
. It’s like a diabetic treating diabetes without a doctor’s advise.
I am guessing he got hooked on pain killers.
He had a lot of pain with throat surgery and Chemotherapy.
TWENTY YEARS of sobriety is a success, not a failure.
Comment by Sue F. — May 23, 2008 @ 2:17 am
Exyank said:
>>I thought he was a cokehead?>
He was a cokehead, crackhead and a junkie.
He was smoking his cocaine when he went off the deep end over twenty years ago. Many crackheads do heroin to take the edge off the cocaine.
Once an addict, always an adict. Believe me, he knows this. He did everything.
Comment by Sue F. — May 23, 2008 @ 2:21 am
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