Let’s start the week off with some good news, shall we?

After a 90-day stay in rehab to tackle an addiction to pain killers, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler — along with the rest of the band — recently announced the group has overcome the rumors that Tyler would be taking an extended break (and the potential legal drama that loomed when the band started “testing out” new lead singers) and will begin “Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock,” their tour of Europe, this summer.

A YouTube video on Aero Force One, Aerosmith’s official site, shows the guys in good spirits, with Joe Perry joking about the rumors being true (he “thinks”) and everyone laughing when Tyler announces he just auditioned and got the gig:

We’re coming your way and rocking your world. Look out baby, ’cause here we come again!

So, good news indeed.

Yet, despite Aerosmith’s high spirits (and my own selfish reasons for wanting Tyler to stay on as the lead singer — I mean, Aerosmith without Steven Tyler? Really?), I couldn’t help but wonder if 90 days is really a sufficient amount of rehab time. I don’t have any firsthand experience with rehab, but I’ve known folks to enter programs as long as three-to-six months.

Judging solely by that, 90 days didn’t seem to measure up, so I went to Psych Central’s Dr. John Grohol who explained there doesn’t seem to be a standard length of time and that many variables help determine the length of stay, including “type of treatment program (hospital-based versus freestanding residential program), length of addiction (years versus decades), court-ordered versus individual’s choice, and how much effort the person puts into their own treatment.”

That makes sense.

Dr. Grohol also pointed out that, according to SAMHSA statistics, “the average length of stay in a hospital-based program is 11 days. For residential programs, it’s 20 days for ‘short-term’ and 46 days for ‘long-term,’” and went on to note that in the case of a celebrity, just like in the case of a non-celebrity, it all boils down to the individual:

I think the key in an individual celebrity’s case is we don’t know how much effort or time they actually spent on working on themselves while in the program. Some people with serious alcohol problems probably can do significant work in 30 days if they’re dedicated to change. Other people, even with 90 days or 6 months, might not be helped very much at all. Length of treatment is just one of many variables that determines a successful outcome.

With that being said, let’s wish Tyler – and the rest of the band – the best!

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