Celebrity Rehab Profile: Marshall Mathers (aka Eminem)
Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem, is one of the most successful recording artists of the past decade. Each of his three albums have hit number one on the pop charts and 5 of his singles have been in the top 10 with “Lose Yourself” hitting number one. Unfortunately, like many others who share the spotlight with him, Eminem found himself addicted to sleep medications and went to a short-term inpatient rehab to cover.
Eminem’s fans know that he is no stranger to prescription painkillers and often talks about the effect of taking those drugs in his songs. He’s even been reported to have a tattoo of a Vicodin tablet on his arm and the pill was featured on the cover of his Slim Shady record. But it was actually Ambien that ended up pushing him into recovery, a drug often advertised on TV as non-addictive.
The struggle for sleep is often what pushes people into opiate painkiller addictions. After a bout with surgery or an accident, the sedative effect of pain medications control your sleeping patterns. Trying to wean yourself off them and recreate your natural, normal diurnal clock (awake during the day and asleep at night) is enough to drive you crazy. Even while your body is exhausted sleep continues to evade you. It’s a tortured position to be in, especially when you know that sleep is as close as a pill bottle.
For those who have come to depend on Vicodin and other sedative painkillers to relax and go to sleep, there’s a way to break the addiction without following Eminem into an inpatient drug rehab facility: Suboxone detox or Suboxone treatment allows you to break your physical addiction to opiates without going into withdrawal. You do it slowly and safely so that your body can adjust naturally, allowing you to more easily regain your diurnal clock and get some sleep.
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