Treatment Centers Have Become Celebs’ Homes

Many celebrities turn to drugs and alcohol as a way to fill emotional voids — voids that run deep in a world where someone can be all the rage one week and completely forgotten the next.

One of the songs nominated for Best Record of the Year is “Rehab” by Amy Winehouse. The 24-year-old soul singer wasn’t at the Grammys because she’s in an addiction treatment rehab, for real.

Winehouse checked herself into a London facility shortly after video of her smoking what looked to be a crack pipe surfaced on celebrity news shows . And, back in December, photographers caught her with what looked like white powder on her nose.

In recent months, tales of stars with drug and alcohol problems have become all too familiar. Fresh-faced Kirsten Dunst, 25, surprised many fans when she checked into rehab. Actress Eva Mendes visited a rehabilitation center of choice for another young actress — Lindsay Lohan.

Around the same time, actor Heath Ledger’s death was caused by an accidental overdose — the result of taking a combination of six different medications, including painkillers and sedatives.