How to Get Treatment at a Celebrity Rehab Center

Ever wonder what it's like inside those celebrity rehab centers you've heard so much about? Remember Promises, the posh clinic where Britney Spears spent a record-setting one day? What's the food like at the Cirque Lodge, where Lindsay Lohan and Kirsten Dunst recently spent some time? Are the beds plush enough at Crossroads, the facility founded by Eric Clapton? Check here before you check in.

Things You'll Need

• Hefty pocketbook or a trust fund to pay fees
• Drug or alcohol addiction or psychiatric disorder
• Overwhelming need to get some R&R

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Instructions

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  Located on a stunning mountain that overlooks Robert Redford's Sundance, Utah, resort, Cirque Lodge is equipped with gyms, saunas, fireplaces, Jacuzzis and media rooms. This mountain retreat resembles a luxury vacation more than a rehab facility, but the fully licensed facility has a reputation for getting the job done with the help of doctors and nurses from the University Neuropsychiatric Institute, who provide care and detox. It even offers an equestrian program. A 30-day stay at Cirque will run you about $26,000, and don't expect your insurance to cough up any assistance. A-listers like Ms. Lohan, Eva Mendes, Mary-Kate Olsen and Kirsten Dunst have spent some quality time here.

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  For an oceanside rehab, try Promises in Malibu, the place most recently visited by Britney Spears. At a rate of about $8,855 per week, this is a posh hideaway that provides treatment programs for alcohol, cocaine and heroin addition, although Promises has been controversial for emphasizing its spa atmosphere over its treatment record. Promises, which admits an average of 400 people year, promotes its "holistic approach" to treatment. Promises has treated, among others, Ben Affleck, Robert Downey Jr. and Diana Ross.

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  Check into the Crossroads Centre on the island of Antigua, in the West Indies, a non-profit rehab center for the treatment of alcohol and other drug addictions founded by rocker Eric Clapton. Residential and outpatient services are provided at Crossroads using a 12-step model and a tough program of abstinence. Still, you can receive spa-like treatments and attention, with meditation, yoga, massage, and the blue waters of Willoughby Bay surrounding you.

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  Join the likes of Miss USA and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler by checking in to the Caron Foundation, located in Wernersville, Pa. This hilltop rehab center has become known as a rehab clinic for the rich and famous, although it treats many of the less famous. At an average cost of $24,000 dollars for a one-month stay, the Caron Foundation also treated Liza Minnelli, who credited the facility with saving her life. Caron treats about 1,100 adults and 425 adolescents a year for chemical addictions of every type.

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  Expect a spartan existence if you check into the Betty Ford Center, the mother of all rehab centers established by the former First Lady. Although located on 14 acres in gorgeous Rancho Mirage, Calif., the center is serious about accepting patients who are willing to make their own beds and perform lowly chores. Year-round occupancy at the Ford Center is 100 percent, and its 80 guests are carefully screened before admission. Treatment is based on the 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous, peer interaction and learning to identify and express feelings appropriately. The good news is that the Ford Center charges one of the lowest rates -- about $6,000 for a 30-day stay.