Philip Seymour Hoffman Checked Into Detox for Narcotics

This wouldn’t be Hollywood unless a famous actor had either a mental illness or drug problem. The most recent sufferer is Philip Seymour Hoffman who just got out of detox for a drug problem. It sounded serious.

Reports say Hoffman had been clean for 23 years until a little over year ago when he relapsed. Hoffman says it started with prescription pills and escalated to snorting heroin.

It took Hoffman only a week of using heroin to realize he needed help which is how he ended up in a detox facility on the East Coast. He was in there for 10 days and checked out last Friday.

On the bright side, Hoffman figured out he had a problem really quick. Usually that doesn’t happen until they’re choking on their own vomit in a seedy motel while a hooker rifles through their pockets or as Nick Stahl likes to call it, Tuesday.