Celebrities Alcohol Addiction
Celebrities Alcohol Addiction
In 2022, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reported that 60.3 million adults reported binge drinking. Binge drinking is drinking an excessive amount to go past someone’s tolerance to alcohol and start feeling the effects of being drunk and extremely intoxicated. Since alcohol addiction isn’t a free addiction, it’s not surprising that many celebrities become addicted to it. They are also more exposed to triggers like lavish parties and award ceremonies that usually serve alcohol to celebrate the rich and famous. Here are the celebrities who have struggled with alcohol addiction.
Betty Ford
Betty Ford, also known as the former wife of President General Ford, suffered from opioid medication addiction. This was in addition to her alcohol addiction before moving into the White House. As part of being a public figure, she didn’t hide her struggles with addiction and was transparent with what was going on with her health-wise. Eventually, she recovered from her addictions with the help and support of her family after a staged intervention. After being sober and recovering from addiction, she created and opened up the Betty Ford Center in 1982. This center was created to help other people who were having issues quitting their addictions and overcoming them. The residential treatment center is a nonprofit as well and still is open today with inpatient, outpatient, and residential day treatment services. The facility also has preventative and educational programs offered to families and children.
Andre The Giant
Andre The Giant was a famous wrestler. He had an alcohol addiction and drank an obscene amount of beer mainly. It was estimated that he consumed around 7,000 calories worth of alcohol per day. He also was diagnosed with a health condition early in his life called acromegaly, a rare glandular disease. With the combination of the health condition and alcoholism, Andre only lived until he was 46 and died of heart failure.
Lindsey Lohan
Lindsay Lohan began her addiction struggles with her struggle of being famous early on in her life. She was very open about her battles with substance abuse, which was alcohol and drugs. It became more evident when she got in a car accident in 2007, leading to a DUI arrest. It became more prevalent too with seeing the signs of addiction out in public as she went into a downward spiral. Although she had relapsed from drugs and alcohol her life, she had finally committed to getting long-term help and support to stay sober.
Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse early on in her fame gained the reputation of being a party girl and always seen drinking alcohol. It was very evident that she suffered from alcohol addiction as she was seen out in public drinking a ton of alcohol and with erratic behavior. She wrote a song “Rehab” that specifically addressed how she kept refusing to go to rehab. She got treatment at one point in 2006 but was seen at one of her concerts to be visibly intoxicated. She became so out of control that the treatment program never got completed and she never had success getting help for alcoholism. She passed away tragically from alcohol poisoning at 27.
Daniel Radcliffe
When filming “Harry Potter” Daniel Radcliffe had been excessively drinking alcohol. He opened up about this as he used alcohol as a coping mechanism due to all the stress and pressure from his job. He was open about this after the Harry Potter movies came to an end and how they made him drink an excessive amount. He recognized this addiction early on enough to get clean and now lives a sober life.
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Robin Williams
Robin Williams started struggling with substance abuse when he filmed “Mork and Mindy”. He became addicted to cocaine and alcohol. He struggled with severe depression his whole life, which was part of the reason he turned to substance abuse. He got addiction treatment before his son was born and then sadly years later killed himself in 2014 and died at age 63.
Verne Troyer
Verne Troyer was born with a genetic disorder of achondroplasia dwarfism, now growing past 2’8”. He had gone through many addiction treatment programs for alcohol and still suffered from addiction until the very end. He ended up killing himself by drinking so much that he got alcohol poisoning.
Jeff Hanneman
Jeff Hanneman was a famous guitarist for the band Slayers. He suffered from long-term alcohol use and addiction. His career as a guitarist ended and threw him into a spiral of consuming copious amounts of alcohol. He ended up dying from cirrhosis in his liver from excessive alcohol use.
Jon Bonham
John Bonham had struggled with alcoholism in public and private. The day he passed away was due to his excessive drinking early in the morning. He didn’t stop drinking until he passed out and never woke up. It was later revealed he had died from choking on his own vomit, and asphyxiation from excessive alcohol consumption. It was reported that the cornerers found up to 40 ounces of vodka in his system in less than 12 hours. Due to his death, the Led Zeppelin group stopped performing.
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck has been very open about his alcoholism in interviews. He started drinking early on in his life and had many times of trying to quit alcohol. He enrolled in a 30-day rehab program specific to alcohol addiction. He ended up relapsing and having to go back to rehab. He continues to suffer from alcoholism as he continues to have an issue of slipping up now and again.
Effects of Alcohol Abuse
Alcohol is a powerful drug and most people don’t think you can get addicted from just one sip. The smallest amount of alcohol can affect you in the short term. If you start binge drinking for those types of effects, it becomes dangerous to you and anyone around you as you’re not aware of what’s going on. When you overindulge, you are more likely to be prone to getting alcohol poisoning.
When you abuse alcohol so much over time, it can affect you physically and mentally in a chronic way. When drinking chronically, you can develop many health problems. Some of the health conditions you can develop over time from drinking are hepatitis, fibrosis, and cirrhosis. This type of drinking pattern can also lead to psychiatric symptoms. You can struggle with alcohol-induced depression, bipolar, and sleep disorders. If you start feeling the withdrawal symptoms of not drinking alcohol, you have an alcohol dependency issue.
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Treatment for Alcohol Addiction
Treatment for alcohol addiction is done by first detoxing medically from it for a few days or so. Celebrities have struggled with this addiction and have either died or gotten help from a rehab center. If you’re struggling to quit drinking alcohol, Resurgence can help you break the cycle of addiction. Support and the right treatment can help you recover from alcohol addiction. Call Resurgence Behavioral Health today at 855-458-0050 to get the help you need for recovery.
