Mindy McCready has committed suicide

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Submitted by DeConstructor on Sun, 02/17/2013 - 21:23

TMZ is reporting that country singer Mindy McCready is dead of an apparent self inflicted gun shot wound. McCready is also an alumni of Drew 'Dr. Death' Pinsky's show 'Celebrity Rehab'

http://www.tmz.com/2013/02/17/mindy-mccready-dead-dies-suicide/#ixzz2LDK...

McCready joins Mike Starr, Jeff Conaway, Rodney King, and Joey Kovar as Celebrity Rehab alumni that are now dead.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/13/the-celebrity-rehab-dea...

One must wonder if Harrahs is making odds on who will be next in Drews Dead Pool.

For what it is worth, to the chagrin of the AA faith and the recovery industry, Charlie Sheen is doing great.

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JR Harris

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 22:19

Mindy McCready also appears to be court coerced and she claimed her problem was not with drugs, but violent relationships. It would appear that Dr. Death Drew did not help with her problems and it is wondered if the confession cult of Alcoholics Anonymous could have exacerbated the situation. She appeared in Season 3 of Celebrity Rehab and the public display and humiliation it causes to those it ensnares in its 12 Step torture of the human mind on public television... She killed herself after the father of her youngest child, record producer David Wilson, was found dead in his home on January 13 of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Mindy McCready

Mindy McCready is a country music singer whose four albums have sold over 3 million copies, while 12 of her singles have appeared on Billboard's country singles charts. With her success has come very public relationships, including an engagement to actor Dean Cain, an underage affair with Major League Baseball star, Roger Clemens, and a very violent association with aspiring country singer, Billy cKnight. Although she was arrested and jailed for trying to buy OxyContin with a false prescription and attempted suicide with an overdose of drugs and alcohol, Mindy believes her only true addiction is to violent relationships.

Source: http://www.vh1.com/shows/celebrity_rehab_with_dr_drew/season_3/cast.jhtml

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Ed

Mon, 02/18/2013 - 09:29

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/effective-addiction-treatment/?...

groundbreaking report published last year by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University concluded that “the vast majority of people in need of addiction treatment do not receive anything that approximates evidence-based care.” The report added, “Only a small fraction of individuals receive interventions or treatment consistent with scientific knowledge about what works.”

The Columbia report found that most addiction treatment providers are not medical professionals and are not equipped with the knowledge, skills or credentials needed to provide the full range of evidence-based services, including medication and psychosocial therapy. The authors suggested that such insufficient care could be considered “a form of medical malpractice.”