Health: A Man of Substance Abuse ; Pete Doherty Believes the Therapist below Can Help Him Beat His Drug Addiction. Harriet Mellor Hears How Paul Russell's Maverick Treatment Could Succeed Where Even a Spell at the Priory Failed

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There is nothing dignified about addicts. For most, substance abuse means a mortifying descent to the gutter in front of family and friends. If you happen to be a rock star named Pete Doherty, that audience also includes the media and one of the most famous women in the world " his on/off girlfriend Kate Moss.

There have been many pictures of Doherty glazed-eyed and grey- skinned " obviously 'under the influence'. But the one of him smoking heroin has become as representative of drug abuse as the image of Danniella Westbrook's cocaine-eroded nose. Most Britons over the age of 30 can't name the ex-Libertines frontman's songs, but they know how he made the headlines: …