If you’re a Hollywood has-been, or even a current star like Eva Mendes, it seems as if the best way to resuscitate or boost your career is to go to drug or alcohol rehab treatment.

In fact, rehab is so popular these days that the latest and greatest reality television show is focused on celebrities getting treatment for their addictions.

Just look at what addiction and mental health issues have done for the likes of Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears. Although it may not be positive attention, it’s attention nonetheless.

I don’t think either of these young women have ever seen their faces in magazines and on television quite as often as they do now. Face it… our society has largely glamorized drug addiction by celebrities and that’s sad.

I have no problem at all with people getting help for their problems. If you’ve got a drug or alcohol problem and you care at all about your family and friends, you’ll get the help you need to kick your damaging habit.

But let’s not throw you a party for finally becoming the human being you were meant to be. And by all means, let’s not glorify your trip to rehab. It’s not a place anyone should want to be.

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