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Actress Mackenzie Phillips Joins Pasadena Recovery Center as “Recovery & Treatment Advocate”

The Pasadena Recovery Center announced on October 1st that they are teaming up with actress Mackenzie Phillips to help educate the public about addiction and recovery. Phillips, an outspoken voice in the community, will be joining Pasadena Recovery Center as the new Recovery and Treatment Advocate. She will be involved in community relations, educational outreach and will host a weekly group meeting. As an alumni of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, she became familiar with the center during filming of the hit reality television series.

“As an addict/alcoholic in recovery, I’m so passionate about helping others find a new way to live,” said Mackenzie Phillips. “Teaming up with Pasadena Recovery Center is an opportunity to do just that. We are in the grip of an epidemic, but there is a solution!”

“I’m very excited about teaming up with Mackenzie Phillips. She brings a lot of enthusiasm and is a welcome addition to the Pasadena Recovery Center Team,” said Michael Bloom co-founder of Pasadena Recovery Center.

The Untelevised Celebrity Rehab Reunion

Celebrity Rehab took more than its share of heat during its six seasons on the air. The issues it dealt with were not pretty and when anyone who’d been on the show died—along with the 200,000-odd others who lose their battles with addiction every year—the show was blamed. The deaths of Jeff Conaway, Mike Starr, Joey Kovar and Mindy McCready were indeed tragic but the public at large seemed unwilling to look at the real issues. The tragedy, in other words, was not about a television show that once-famous folks appeared on during the later days of their respective struggles. The tragedy is that addiction takes so many lives.

Celebrity Rehab Reunion – Pasadena Recovery Center Speaker Seires

Celebrity Rehab Reunion - Pasadena Recovery Center Speaker Seires

The latest in our Speaker Series Event on September 11 2013 featured cast members and from Celebrity Rehab with Dr Drew as they shared before a packed room of over 100 guests their views on what it’s like staying sober as a celebrity. Pasadena Recovery Center’s owner and co-founder Michael Bloom presented questions to the cast members on a number of topics as well as answering questions from the audience. Dr Drew Pinsky and Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard were in the audience as well making this truly one of our greatest Speaker Series Events yet.

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