Tonight Show host Jay Leno recently said of terrorists rejoining Al Qaida after being released from U.S. custody: “Apparently, Guantanamo Bay has the same success rate as the Promises Rehab Center in Malibu.”

The little happy Reddit logo is bummed out today after the weird California Supreme Court ruling that lets some gays who are already married - stay married and other gays who want to get married…can’t because…uhm…equal rights? Something.

It’s like if Brown vs. The Board of Education let some schools be segregated but any new ones would have to be mixed.

Anyway, little dude is sad.

After the break is what he normally looks like when civil rights aren’t denied by mob rule.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The California Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage Tuesday, but it also decided that the estimated 18,000 gay couples who tied the knot before the law took effect will stay wed.

Iron Mike Tyson says he is a changed man and claims he’s now in control of his ego.

The former heavyweight champion of the world appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on US TV and revealed he is a happier man without the ego that made him the most feared boxer on the planet.

Tyson said: “I have a great deal of gratitude and I think that rehab put it all in perspective. I’m trying my best, which is hard. I’m not trying to be so self-absorbed any more because when it is all about me then that is when all the problems happen. When I allow my will to run riot, it doesn’t associate with anything good.”

“It is the first time I have been able to take care of myself,” the legendary brawler confessed to the host.

The 42-year-old former boxer revealed that the tribal tattoo on the side of his face could have looked different if he had gone with his original wish.

“I was going to put a bunch of small hearts, about 30 different hearts instead but a friend told me to get something different,” Tyson said.

Tyson, who scored 44 wins by KO during his boxing career also shared his philosophy with Kimmel when it came to stepping into the ring.

He said: “My particular style was to destroy them, hurt them, crush them and not allow them to come back and fight any more.”

A magazine has claimed that Paula Abdul’s notoriously loopy behaviour on American Idol was due to an overreliance on painkillers… but the real Paula insists it’s not true.

Ladies’ Home Journal has published an interview in which Abdul supposedly confesses that for more than 10 years she relied on a cocktail of powerful drugs — including nerve medication and muscle relaxants — to help her cope with debilitating pain caused by a string of injuries sustained through her long career.

The Journal reports that Abdul finally checked herself into California’s La Costa Resort and Spa in 2008 to kick the habit, fearing that her overreliance on medication might kill her. Celebrity rehab.

But Abdul claims the entire interview was fabricated, saying she’s never been addicted to or abused drugs, and has never gone to rehab.

“It was very stressful for me to hear that and to be quoted saying something I never said,” Abdul told a US radio DJ.

While Abdul admitted to visiting the resort, she claims she was there on a spa vacation. “I was there for almost three days having fun doing spa stuff,” she said. “It’s not a clinic. It’s not a detox place. It’s a luxurious spa. It’s like taking a mini vacation.”

Abdul is yet to decide whether she’ll take legal action against the magazine, which stands by its report.

While Abdul has claimed the report isn’t true, there’s no denying that she has exhibited some kooky behaviour during her stint as an American Idol judge. One of Abdul’s most unusual moments came in 2008, when delivered a verdict on a contestant’s performance before he’d actually performed. Watch the clip of the eyebrow-raising incident, which Abdul blamed on mixing up her notes:

John Belushi
Belushi was a heavy cocaine user through most of his adult life. Right at the end of his life, he began using heroin. His death is widely attributed to a speedball overdose but it was likely a cocaine overdose.
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David Bowie
A heavy cocaine and occasional heroin user.
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William S. Burroughs
Burroughs was the father of the “beat” movement with books like Junkie and The Naked Lunch.
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Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain is a tragic figure in the heroin subculture. Most people think that drugs killed him, but in the end it seems more likely that he was killed by the intolerance of those around him who could not come to terms with his drug use.
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Miles Davis
Miles Davis was one of the inventors of cool jazz.
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Thomas De Quincy
The writer of Confessions of an English Opium Eater was an opium addict for almost fifty years–the William S. Burroughs of his day!
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Robert Downey, Jr.
The most oppressed man in America?
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Ben Franklin
This founding father was known to occasionally use opium recreationally.
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Jerry Garcia
Although the Grateful Dead are strongly associated with psychedelics–especially LSD–Garcia used heroin on and off throughout most of his adult life. His death is often attributed to “heroin overdose” like the death the just about any famous heroin user. Garcia was a chain-smoker who was also quite over-weight and in poor overall health. This is undoubtably the primary reason for his death: general system failure. The official causes was heart failure which he experienced at a rehab clinic.
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Boy George
He wasn’t a junkie for long, but he has some good stories about being an addict.
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Herman Goering
Goering became a morphine addict in WWI because of an injury. He stayed addicted to morphine for the rest of his life. In WWI, he was an ace pilot with 22 confirmed “kills”. Under Hitler, he was the commander of the Nazi air force (Luftwaffe). He was so liked by Hitler, that Hitler named him his successor; various failures during WWII, however, caused him to fall out of favor with the Nazi leader who used him publicly as a scapegoat for war troubles. Goering is most remembered as the leader of the Luftwaffe, but he is an excellent example of how little a problem opioid addiction is, when the opioid is legal and readily available. Goering was found guilty of war crimes after WWII and sentenced to hang–he killed himself before the sentence could be carried out.
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Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was one of the greatest singers of this century. But like many great artists the US government treated her very poorly.
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Love
Love was the psychedelic version of the Velvet Underground. In it’s original incarnation, it did not last long but still managed to produce two of the greatest rock albums ever.
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Bela Lugosi
“Dracula” spent a decade plus addicted to morphine and methadone.
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Charlie Parker
Probably the greatest sax player of all time, Parker was also a life-long heroin addict.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Since Poe died before heroin was invented, he clearly never used heroin. It is well-documented, however, that he used opium with some regularity.
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Elvis Presley
You doubt us? You doubt that the king of rock-n-roll was a junkie? We’ll provide you with the facts–you can decide for yourself. Also check out the strange story of Elvis and Nixon.
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Keith Richards
We’ll get around to dealing with him soon enough.
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Tom Sizemore
You may remember him as the sick cop who kills a prostitute in Natural Born Killers. The word is that he is now off smack. The story goes that Robert De Niro showed up on Tom’s doorstep one morning with Tom’s mom to confront him about his heroin use (I’m so touched my eyes are getting all watery). One telling has De Niro threatening to turn Sizemore into the police for “heroin use” which may be true even though heroin use is not illegal–De Niro wouldn’t necessarily know this fine point of law. I wrote a short rant about how I would like to see him playing fewer cops.
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James Taylor
The prototypical “singer/songwriter” of the 1970s was an on again, off again heroin user.

Lindsay Lohan

By Dwayne Steward

The proverbial “curse of the child star” is definitely alive and well, with Lindsey Lohan’s arrest Tuesday for alleged DUI and cocaine possession. Here’s a list of other former child stars who’ve run into substance-abuse trouble.

Danny Bonaduce, 48
Played Danny Partridge in “The Partridge Family”
Arrested in 1985 when the cops found 50 grams of coke in his car, arrested again in 1990 at a crack house in Daytona Beach, Fla., after police found cocaine on him. He was also arrested in 1991 for allegedly beating up a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix, Ariz. He checked himself into rehab in April 2005.
Dana Plato, died in 1999
Played Kimberly Drummond in “Different Strokes”
She was arrested in January 1992 for forging Valium prescriptions and was later cited for parole violation, for which she served 30 days in jail. The same year she entered rehab, which she fell in and out of until she committed suicide in 1999 by taking an overdose of painkillers at the age of 34.

Todd Bridges, 42
Played Willis Jackson in “Different Strokes”
He was arrested in 1993 in Burbank, Calif., after police found methamphetamine and a handgun in a car he was driving. He pled guilty to the charges and entered a court-ordered, one-year drug treatment program. In 1990, a jury acquitted him after he was accused of shooting a drug dealer in Los Angeles.

Jodie Sweetin, 25
Played Stephanie in “Full House”
In March 2005, after being taken to the emergency room suffering from the effects of alcohol and methamphetamine, she voluntarily checked herself into rehab.

Tatum O’Neal, 43
Youngest person to win an Academy Award, 1n 1973 at age 10, for her supporting role in Paper Moon
In early 2000, O’Neal revealed her story of long-time drug abuse. She began using drugs by age 14, going from marijuana to Quaaludes and cocaine to heroin. In 1992 lost custody of her three children because of drug abuse.

Leif Garrett, 45
’70s teen singing idol
Pleaded guilty in March 2005 to attempted possession of cocaine-based narcotics and was placed on probation. Arrested and charged Jan. 18, 2006 with possessing heroin after he was arrested for allegedly trying to ride the subway without paying. He failed several drug tests while in a drug diversion program and was sentenced in May 2006 to 90 days in jail and three years probation after opting out of another drug treatment program.

Drew Barrymore, 32
Played Gertie in “E.T.”
Entered a rehab clinic at the age of 13 to fight drug and alcohol abuse. She hit rock bottom after stealing her mother’s credit card and bought a plane ticket to the West Coast with the intention of going to Hawaii. She was apprehended by private investigators in Los Angeles and led back to rehab in handcuffs.

Haley Joel Osment, 19
Played Cole in “The Sixth Sense”
In October 2006, he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of drunken driving and drug possession after an automobile crash in Los Angeles. He was put on three years probation, paid $1,500 in fines and was ordered to spend 60 hours in alcohol rehabilitation and attend Alcoholics Anonymous.

Corey Feldman, 36
’80s child star, played in “Gremlins”, “The Goonies” and “Stand By Me”
Arrested in 1990 for heroin possession and was sentenced to community service.

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by Deena Dasein (December 1996)

“Before it was cool to be a junkie these guys had it down pat.” That’s how the Brit-accented afternoon Chicagoland rock jock recently intro’d the Rolling Stones’ “Beast of Burden.”

Junk, horse, smack- it goes by a multitude of endearing nicknames. We are now in the year of the horse, whatever the Chinese calendar says. Heroin’s hip.

It’s hip with rock fans, who’ve always had some drug of choice, along with their favorite band. And it’s used by rock musicians, as evidenced by a host of revelations about best selling 90s’ artists. Nirvana, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains, and Stone Temple Pilots are some of the better known. A junkie in the band hasn’t kept them off the cover of Rolling Stone, hasn’t kept their videos off MTV, and hasn’t hurt their album sales. Perhaps the real meaning of alternative is heroin, as opposed to pot, acid, coke, or ecstasy.

Rock isn’t the only industry currently addicted to the mystique of horse. Hollywood hypes heroin too. Recent movies popular with the avant-youth audience, such as “Pulp Fiction,” “Killing Zoe,” and “The Basketball Diaries,” featured the drug. “Trainspotting,” in which heroin has the starring role, is the defining movie of the year.

Urban Outfitters sells Irvine Welsh’s novel, Trainspotting, on which the movie is based. A recent flap in the literary world saw another writer, and former heroin user, Will Self accuse Welsh of “never having injected heroin.” Welsh has had to defend himself against this libel.

The rock book of the year, Please Kill Me, has hardly anything to say about music. It focusses on the proto-punk New York scene and its fascination with heroin- copping it, shooting it, and dying from it.

Even the current fashion pages have been criticized for using models that visually represent the gaunt addict. Oprah did two shows on herion in September and a piece in Details indicates that 8th graders can’t wait to try heroin.

The junkie Beat, William Burroughs, has worked with or been sampled by a batch of rock musicians in the ’90s. His visage adorns the T-shirts of the coffee shop crowd.

Heroin is hip, in part, because it is harnessed to death. Sure you can die from shooting up cocaine. Even alcohol kills- not only from cirrhosis of the liver and traffic accidents; you can also encounter the grim reaper by choking on your own vomit in a drunken stupor. But if it’s death you’re after, heroin has got the others beat by a mile.

Death has always been the great rock career move, but it has to be done right. Heart attacks, strokes, and even cirrhosis don’t quite cut it. Diseases of old age, fading away rather than burning out, are not career enhancing departures.

Dying well in rock needs two elements to work - the body has to be relatively young, and the cause of death should be some sort of Dionysian excess. The Stones and Beatles are in their fifties. Chuck Berry is over 70. When they go (and yes, like you dear reader, they eventually will go) their deaths will not be great career moves.

The best rock death is from a drug overdose. It is the equivalent of Christians being burned at the stake or being eaten by lions for their faith - it is the martyrdom that leads to sainthood.

And heroin kills. Not always, but like Russian Roulette, play it long enough and the odds are that you’ll take the bullet. Heroin has the aura, and some statistics to back it up, of a form of suicide. A soft one. It’s not like blowing your brains out with a rifle. Right, Kurt?

Heroin’s dirty dance with the grim reaper gives it a Romantic aura. “When I’m closing in on death,” Lou Reed croons in his ode to smack. “Heroin, be the death of me,” he commands. Rock, especially in the sixties, has been pervaded by an ideology of Romanticism. And, depite, or perhaps because of, the triumph of the postmodern - Romanticism’s antithesis and archenemy - the Romantic ideology stubbornly persists. Attenuated and in tatters, to be sure, Romanticism still shrouds rock, particularly the musician as a creative artist.

Romanticism. Recall the 19th century poet maudit, like Rimbaud or Verlaine, the tortured soul who suffered for his art. Living a dignified bourgois life was seen to be inimical to real art. The artist used a variety of drugs to call forth the creative muse, went mad, and died young.

Under the sign of Romanticism rock has embraced mind-altering substances- from vast quantities of beer and Jack Daniels, to pot, acid, ’shrooms, heroin, speed, and cocaine. When alterntive consciousness can be reached naturally, as with schizophrenia, that’s cool too. Think of the cults around such naturals as Syd Barrett, Roky Erikson, and Brian Wilson. And do you think that Wesley Willis’ current following is due to the quality of his music?

Heroin is sought out by musicians partly for its mind-altering properties. It removes one from the practical world. And the Bourgois is nothing, if not practical. The high is intensely pleasurable. As Reed puts it: “When I’m rushing on my run And I feel just like Jesus’ son.” Good god!

For most continual users, heroin’s major function is not to provide pleasure, but to remove pain. All types of pain- psychological, physical and the practical work-a-day variety. (Craving smack after one has developed a relationship with the stuff gets to be the major pain that another dose removes.)

Steven Tyler, the more vocal half of Aerosmith’s drug-addled Toxic Twins, has not been reticent about his longtime affection for horse. “You’re gonna always dream about it,” he says longingly. Part of its attraction, he explains, is that “it slows life down and turns off the overintellectualizing part of your brain.”

The Romantic belief is that creativity requires the absence of the rational, that “overintellectualizing” kills the artistic spirit. If one believes this to be true, using heroin may, at least for a time, actually aid the creative process.

The Romantic ideology preaches rebellion against the straight society. Youth culture in last half of the 20th century is a mass- mediated succession of promotions of transgressions. Thumbing one’s nose, so to speak, at middle class propriety; EpatÈ le bourgeois. Rock did this from the beginning. In the fifties, bump’n'grind dancing to doo-wop and the acceptance of “race music” [R&B] by white audiences outraged the “good folks”. The democratization of transgression picked up speed as the number of “youth” in the population, and their affluence, increased. During the late sixties the Woodstock generation’s use of marijuana and LSD, and its long- haired males, gave the bird to the keepers of society’s standards.

Skipping past the trespasses of the past quarter of a century, we now have the youthful cool of tattoos, thrift-shop fashion, and body-piercing. And heroin. The bourgeoisie is not amused. Their party, the Republicans, have fought back, with Nixon’s attack dog, the late Spiro Agnew’s denounciations of pot, Reagan’s “Just Say No” guard-dog Nancy, and Bob Dole’s “Just Don’t Do It” campaign sound-bite.

The Rebel-as-Romantic-Hero, Romanticism once removed, also feeds heroin’s hipness. Rockers in the ’60s admired old blues and jazz musicians- many who’d used horse. Later rockers admired not only those same people, but the sixties rockers who also used the drugs. How many latter day rockers took Keith Richards or Jimi Hendrix as their role models? “Mr.Brownstone’s” creator, Guns N’Roses’ Axl Rose, declares: “We’re competing with rock legends, and we’re trying to do the best we can to possibly be honored with a position like that.” And now the new guys on the block, presently unknown, are into heroin because, as one band member explained “They think it’s gonna make them like Guns N’Roses, man.”

The current heroin fad among rock musicians should come as no surprise. They have the same demographics as junkies: males, between the ages of 18-34, without college degrees and the professional jobs advanced degrees permit. How many accountants do you know of who have O.D.’d on heroin?

Heroin use in the U.S. has generally increased in the ’90s, although reliable statistics are hard to come by. One good estimate comes from hospital emergency rooms, which report an uptick in people being brought in who’ve overdosed on heroin.

Smack is not (yet) sold in glassine packets via vending machines. But for those working in the demi-monde of rock, connections are not hard to find. Groupies, fans, and industry personnel will help cop stuff. Once you get above the five-guys-in- a-van touring level, the ubiquitous flunkies will fetch anything. M&Ms with the red ones eliminated? Sure. Women? Easy. Horse? Of course.

And with a hit record or two, price is no object. Surrounded by a managment team that takes care of all the practical things that the rest of us need to do for ourselves, like get food, wash clothes, and arrange travel, rock musicians, like street bums, are separated from the discipline of reality.

As Courtney Love puts it, heroin is “the drug you do if you’re in a fuckin’ four-star hotel and you can order all the goddamn room service that you want and you can just lay in bed and drool all over yourself because you’ve got a million bucks in the bank. That’s the drug you want to do if you want to be a kid forever.”

Let’s not tell Bob “Just Don’t Do It” Dole, but, ideology and image aside, alcohol and a variety of illegal substances have some practical value. All work involves tension, frustration, and aggravation. How we deal with them is only explained in part by our unique personality. Cultures of coping develop - martinis for execs, coke for commodity traders, and, judging by their girth, highly caloric food for grade school teachers.

The dirty secret is that heroin is useful for rock musicians. On tour, it evens out the excitement of playing to exuberent, enthusiastic crowds for an hour or two a day, and the boredom of the “hurry up and wait” that takes up most of the time on the road. Also, because the drug is not a social enhancer. it is a way of getting privacy, and on tour privacy is at a premium. Heroin draws you into yourself, pulls a curtain around you, creates a private jet.

Appearances aside, performance anxiety is hardly rare. An unnamed musician, interviewed in Spin, admits that “heroin is the perfect drug for live performing… With the right amount, it just relaxes you, but it doesn’t take your muscle coordination away.”

And if touring is stressful, how do you handle life off the road after constantly touring for many months or years? With a little help from your friends, is the answer given by many band members.

“Heroin was life without the anxiety,” Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler recalled fondly, after he was supposedly clean.

Heroin is also of great practical use for rock careers, because it gets publicity, rock music’s life-blood. “Today’s heroin vogue is such that artists seem to seek credibility by confiding to journalists about their use of smack.” writes a straightfaced scribe in Rolling Stone. How convenient.

Discussing how the rock media sensationalizes heroin and capitalizes on the public’s fascination with it to sell magazines makes this article not just a little suspect. It’s not unlike the local newscasts during TV sweeps month, with their stories tsk- tsking the strip clubs- film footage at 10. So for those of you who’ve wanted the sensationalism, the side-bars [ALL THE PEOPLE WHO OD'd/ AND THOSE WHO HAVEN'T (YET)] are for you.

Drug use, once it becomes public knowledge, is one of the most crucial parts of the celebrity text of an artist or band, a factoid that has to be mentioned in any artist’s profile. The rock media is at its best when an artist dies of a drug overdose- obits are their pride and joy.

In July, Philip Anselmo, the lead singer of Pantera, collapsed after a concert in Dallas. His record company dutifully (it was publicity after all) sent a statement thither and yon, indicating that Anselmo said he had injected a lethal dose of heroin and died for 4 to 5 minutes. “There was no lights, no beautiful music, just nothing,” he said. Will every interview with Anselmo until the end of time refer to this? Wanna bet?

But the question remains- why is heroin hip NOW?

Is it merely something different, a new fashion that replaces the old one? Each generation wants its own stuff, needs to distinguish itslef in some unique mode, from earlier ones. In the age of retrorock, body piercing and heroin are the fashion accessories for the ’90s. They’ve replaced the coke spoons of the Reagan youth.

Or is it the next step (up or down?) in youth transgressions something that trumps the previous generation’s rebellious moves? After all, the parents of 1990s youth were the pot smoking, acid- tripping members of the Woodstock generation. If youthful rebellion requires behavior that “whitens mother’s hair,” heroin does up the ante.

Then, too, junk resembles the current stampede to personal computers. Both have become quasi-commodities that are relatively inexpensive, more powerful, and easier to start-up and use than they were in the past. Users of both need to keep giving their dealers more money to satisfy their joneses. The computer industry has to actually invest in upgrades and advertising to keep customers coming back for more. The heroin industry, a capitalist’s wet dream, has no such overhead. The increased purity of heroin has allowed users to avoid a big turnoff to first-time users - the needle. The ever-helpful smack seller now offers two brands, cut with different chemicals- one for shooting up and one for snorting. So it is now possible to start a habit more easily. It’s also possible to remain a “chipper”- a weekend snorter who doesn’t graduate to the syringe.

Ease of use, a new fashion of a new generaion, and ratcheting up the transgression ante- are these sufficient explanations for heroin’s current hip status? I think not.

Look at the subculture that has most strongly embraced heorin- the Seattle-based grunge community. While the good-folk of the Northwest coast sipped their drug of choice at Starbucks, the music scenester was, as Alice-in-Chains put it, a “Junkhead.”

“What in G-d’s name have you done?” Alice’s junkhead singer Layne Staley asks in “G-d Smack.” His response to his rhetorical query is “stick your arm for some real fun.”

“When the grunge thing first started happening,” an insider recently quoted in Rolling Stone relates, “I never met a band out of Seattle that wasn’t either dabbling or full-on heroin addicts.”

Grunge features singers whose voices are as expressive of pain as their lyrics. Listen to Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder, Layne Staley, Billy Corgan, or dozens of other grunge frontmen. This is not a joyful noise. They bellow their pain and whisper it. They exude a defeated rage - “I’m still a rat in the cage.” Nevermind. Whether or not these singers, and the fans who dig by their music, actually use heroin is not the point.

Smack’s main claim to fame is as a pain reducer. Hell, Bayer, those purveyors of aspirin, sold heroin a hundred years ago as the ultimate snake-oil painkiller. Heroin’s ultimate is its deep resonance with a generation that feels itself in great pain.

There is still another point that adds to the drug’s hipness today. Users are termed addicts and they are seen to need professional medical help. In the ’90s heroin has changed its meaning; it’s been resignified. Getting a habit no longer gives you a Keith Richards outlaw-chic aura. No, today you are an addict - someone who has no control over their lives. You need help. Profound help. You are a victim of the drug.

And victimhood is the ultimate mark of hipness today.

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Eminem has launched a new viral Website that Celebrity Rehab’s Dr. Drew Pinsky might endorse to accompany his upcoming Relapse. Embracing the Web like never before, Em first used his Twitter to post a picture of himself outside of some place called “Popsomp Hills.” A visit to the refurbished Eminem.com revealed another site, The-Relapse.com, which in turn redirected to PopsompHills.com, a page for a fictional rehab center that if you say it quickly is “Pop Some Pills.” Pills are an ongoing theme for Eminem on his comeback album, especially given Relapse’s cover art.

Boasting the slogan “We Remade You” — a riff on Relapse’s first single “We Made You” — Popsomp Hills is advertised as a real Bloomfield Hills, Michigan rehab center (the address on the site actually plugs into Google Maps) with a Swiss founder named “Dr. Balzac” in charge. The site also features some oft-repeated contact information: “Help is moments away. Call our 24-hour confidential information line at 313-486-5975 or send us a private email to info@PopsompHills.com.” Anyone presuming they might get to hear a new song by calling that number will be disappointed: it’s just a text-messaging list.

This whole thing has us reminiscing about that viral game that accompanied the release of Nine Inch Nails’ Year Zero. But there’s much more weird stuff on the Popsomp Website: By clicking “Learn More,” you’re redirected to the Wikipedia page for “Hell,” the “Terms & Conditions” seem to be enablers (”Life is too short, party harder than ever. We can help”) and links to a multitude of actual rehab options. As Rock Daily reported yesterday, Eminem told fans that he’d appear on his Sirius XM radio station Shade45 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. this morning, and that they should “Listen carefully.” Check back later to see if the Slim Shady aired any new Relapse material.

*Dennis Rodman will reportedly check into a rehab facility to treat his alcohol addiction after first turning down pleas from his wife and friends during a failed intervention.

As previously reported, family and friends of Rodman, including his former Los Angeles Lakers coach, Phil Jackson, unsuccessfully reached out to the star, who had refused to admit himself to an inpatient facility. The recent “Celebrity Apprentice” participant said he wanted instead attend the show’s live season finale this weekend.

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