Actress Yancy Butler kicks prescription pill addiction Part 2

Published May 28, 2010

www.malibubeachrecoverycenter.com Actress Yancy Butler was living what seemed to be a charmed life. Born and raised in New Yorks Greenwich Village and the daughter of 60s Rock and Roll star, Joe Butler of the Lovin Spoonful, Yancy dreamed at a young age of one day being in the movies. By the year 2002, she had achieved that dream. A veteran Hollywood film and television actress, she had just finished starring in Witchblade, her own TV series and was fast becoming a household name. With her best years still ahead of her, The future seemed bright but soon after the cancellation of her series, Yancy was arrested and charged with disorderly intoxication, the first of several arrests and like so many other Hollywood stars she would begin a very public slide into the depths of alcoholism, and the long road back. Over the next four years, Yancy struggled back the hard way. Rehab, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, sponsees, step work, commitments. On the surface, everything was coming together and then, with the onset of excruciating and unexplainable physical pain, it all came tumbling down – again, only this time in a most insidious way. There is an epidemic in this country, the true scope of which is only now beginning to surface. It involves both doctor and patient bound together by circumstances far beyond their control. It is a cooperative dance of both honesty and deception fueled by an addiction that statistically eclipses that of any street drug. Prescription pain …

Actress Yancy Butler kicks prescription pill addiction Part 2

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