Chili Peppers star warns against rehab

The Red Hot Chili Peppers' frontman Anthony Keidis has warned celebrities against turning to rehab as a solution for their problems.

A couple of weeks in rehab seems to have become as common as a holiday in St Barts for today's stars.

However former addict Keidis has urged desperate celebs to steer clear of rehab - because, he believes, the clinics' treatment "don't help".

The Chili Peppers singer, who successfully overcame an addiction to heroin, spent many years going in and out of rehab and has remained clean since the beginning of the decade.

He said: "Rehab is full of a lot of quacks that want to instantly diagnose you as this or that, or with something you might not actually have, just because you're on a bad drug run or something.

"Then you show up and suddenly they decided you're manic depressive. If you wanna get well, you'll find a way."

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