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- Addicted To Prescription Drugs The Mental Health Services Administration says approximately 48 million people have used prescription drugs for non-medical reasons.

Prescription drugs can treat many problems, but ...

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By the time he met Wilson, he had a Beverly Hills clinic and a celebrity clientele.

Dr.

Solon D.

Samuels, a former director of Gateways, told The Times in 1988 that Landy was a maverick who did "things that no other psychologist has done in treating the psychotic and the drug addict." Wilson seemed to fit the clinical profile to a distressing degree.

He rarely got out of bed or talked to anyone.

He went weeks without brushing his teeth or taking a shower, believing that "blood would gush out of the sink faucet and snakes would spring out of the shower head," he wrote in his 1991 memoir "Wouldn't It Be Nice." His mind was so wasted on drugs — including cocaine, LSD and heroin — that he even tried to give them to his two young daughters.

Landy insisted that he have total control of Wilson and his environment.

He also was adamant that Wilson had to request treatment himself.

According to Wilson's autobiography, the musician caved in after a two-month campaign — orchestrated by Landy — in which his then-wife, Marilyn, and eventually many of his close friends, pretended to be in therapy with the psychologist and told Wilson how much they enjoyed it.

His first session with Landy took place in Wilson's bedroom closet, the only place Wilson said he felt safe.

Landy gradually gained his trust and helped him regain enough physical and mental health that the pop idol performed at the Beach Boys' 15th anniversary concert Dec.

31, 1976.

Landy, howeve...