The insidious disease of addiction claims another life as musician Mike Starr loses his battle with substance abuse, despite a stint on Celebrity Rehab.
Not every recovery story has a happy ending. Mike Starr, the former Alice in Chains bassist whose battle with drugs was chronicled on the third season Celebrity Rehab, was found dead this week in Salt Lake City.
There is no official cause of death yet for the 44-year-old, but Starr was honest about the monumental struggle it was for him to stay clean after years of heroin abuse. Known for his reality TV stints on Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew and it’s spin-off Sober House, the musician continued to battle drug addiction. Just last month, he was arrested and booked on suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance in Salt Lake City when authorities found him with six oxymorphone pills and six Xanax pills. Starr left Alice In Chains in 1993, but was still profoundly affected by the death of the band’s lead singer Layne Staley from a drug overdose in 2002. (more…)
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