Em Out Of Rehab

by **Sunni** » Sep 14th, '05, 03:27

Brighton Hospital offers addicts -- including Eminem -- sparse accommodations but healthy direction for regaining control over drugs and alcohol
September 11, 2005

BY PATRICIA ANSTETT
FREE PRESS MEDICAL WRITER

The Brighton hospital Eminem chose for his recovery from a sleeping pill addiction is a bare-bones facility with a 6:30 a.m. wake-up call, a 10:30 p.m. bedtime and rules banning hip-hop music or movies that don't have a recovery theme.

A white picket fence and old-fashioned chapel suggest a country club, but the nation's second-oldest private substance abuse facility, an hour's drive northwest of Detroit, is more boot camp than sumptuous retreat.

Two-thirds of the staff are recovered addicts, including the medical director of its detoxification unit, a doctor whose medical license once was yanked over his addiction to booze and drugs.

A third of the clientele are addicted to sleeping pills and other sedative medicines, making it a logical choice for the rapper born Marshall Mathers. Numerous sources close to Eminem say he admitted himself to Brighton Hospital for an addiction to the sleeping drug Ambien days after an Aug. 12 concert at Comerica Park in Detroit. Officials at Brighton and the St. John Health System, of which the hospital is a part, cited federal health privacy laws in declining to confirm whether Eminem was or remains a patient at the hospital.

But Tuesday, hospital officials spent nearly three hours with a Detroit Free Press team answering questions and providing a limited campus tour.

Their willingness to admit the newspaper team suggests Eminem is no longer there. Patients generally stay at the facility for 10 days, followed by as much as six months of outpatient therapy.
"The people who follow up with a treatment plan are the ones who do well," said Dr. Mark Menestrini, medical director of the detox unit.

Menestrini, 52, tells his own story of addiction, without shame, if for no other reason than to provide hope to all who will listen. After 12 arrests, four relapses and the near-collapse of his marriage, Menestrini regained his medical license and went on to pass national board certification exams as an addiction medicine specialist.

by **B.A.D.** » Sep 14th, '05, 04:46

"After 12 arrests, four relapses and the near-collapse of his marriage"

that's fucked up

by **MaD** » Sep 14th, '05, 07:24

I'm glad is out... :lol: Thanks for posting this...

by **eminemcaparica** » Sep 14th, '05, 13:03

i hope ir is true... i will check it out in other sites, propz man, that great

:P

by **yoshi** » Sep 14th, '05, 16:08

hope it's true, propz fry

by **walend** » Sep 14th, '05, 21:05

oke props for the news !!!
At last some real good news :wink:

by **Shadyluva** » Sep 14th, '05, 22:18

this is good news after a long time, i am so happy that em is out of rehab, he can get thru anythin

by **_maniac_** » Sep 14th, '05, 22:48

30-3 wrote:"After 12 arrests, four relapses and the near-collapse of his marriage"

that's fucked up

yeah, im with you, this sucks for him

by **braindamag00** » Sep 15th, '05, 15:39

i hope its tru too! i m so proud of him for doin all that tho..if i had a prob idk if i would b able to check in to rehab..esp not wit a million people havin to kno bout it. hez a strong dude.

by **dagreatdane** » Sep 15th, '05, 21:17

"No hip hop music allowed...?"
hope that going through rehab without that made him that much more eager to create once he got out, feelin me?
LikeI can barely go a day without chillin to some beats, let alone having to do rehab without it. Damn!

by **jayne:)justin** » Sep 16th, '05, 23:16

thats cool, im glad !

by **dgentz** » Sep 17th, '05, 00:58

great news man.

by **Fizzikal** » Sep 17th, '05, 01:36

y do rehab centers ban hip hop I REALLY DO HATE THAT WITH A PASSION!!!

by **Bad ass** » Sep 17th, '05, 02:43

Yeesssss

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