It appears Lindsay Lohan has won a "Sober Shine Award." This placard appeared in front of LiLo's Palm Desert home, from which she commutes to the Betty Ford Clinic's outpatient rehab program. Inspiring or condescending? [Photo via Pacific Coast News]

We always hear about celebrities checking into rehab for their various addictions, expletive-laden tirades, or episodes of "exhaustion." Lindsay Lohan just checked in yesterday for the eighth time. Where do they disappear to while trying to get clean? Let's look.

The site of Lindsay Lohan's forthcoming court-ordered in-patient rehabilitation has been revealed: Newport Beach's Morningside Recovery clinic, a seaside facility that treats chemical addiction and mental illness.

A study in the July issue of the Journal of Neurophysiology says the same part of the brain that deals with romantic rejection also handles cocaine addiction. Now there's a scientific explanation for stalking! [NYDN]

The addicts who appear on A&E's Intervention have a 71 percent recovery rate, which is astonishingly high. Of the 161 addicts profiled on the show, 130 are allegedly still sober. See? Reality television isn't entirely bad after all.

A South Korean couple let their baby die of malnutrition because they were addicted to online games. Now the government will offer rehabilitation centers for those who always need just one more hit.

Addicted's finale traced the recoveries of a couple brought together and ripped apart by shared heroin and cocaine addictions. Annie and Mike have lost their reasons to live and will die together, unless Kristina has something to say about it....

Though she's clearly been hitting the substances and sexy nudie pics a little too hard lately, British socialite Peaches Geldof refuses to go to rehab. Even though her own mother died of an overdose, and her Dad's begging her to.

Wife-beating actor Charlie Sheen has checked into rehab as a "preventative measure." Witness the ingenious invention of a new celebrity phenomenon: Prehab. A guide to the four advantages it provides over actual rehab.

Hot damn. Allen Salkin — the Seymour Hersh of the Sunday Styles section — hit the nail on the head this time. Salkin reviewed/profiled the DJ AM docu-show about addiction, and got some quotes. It's a teary, compelling affair.

The president-elect is surely familiar with the stages of grief from that time he recently "quit" sweet, luscious cigarettes, forever. Sad, then, that several weeks after he was elected, Barack Obama is still in the "bargaining" stage about losing his Blackberry, which presidents aren't allowed to have, because then the laws would work as they are intended to and the public would know what they're up to. Barbara Walters recently asked Obama about losing the email device, and he laughed to hide the tears (next grief stage: "depression"), and said he's in talks to keep his precious 'berry:

Crackhead-turned Times reporter success story David Carr is loved by media types for being a cool guy, and is basking in the generally positive public attitude towards his upcoming memoir. But everything is not well in Carr's world. Oh no. Just as Carr has found the strength to open up to the world about his past drug use, an even bigger scandal threatens to overwhelm him: his incurable fondness for potatoes.

The road to recovery from gambling addiction is a long one, but the first priority is admitting to yourself that you have a problem, which Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis did in his first email missive since quitting the blogosphere:

While Amy Winehouse is in the hospital with emphysema, her Brother in Crack Pete Doherty is cleaning up. Well, at least he's taking a bath. As part of his "Come to Gig" series on YouTube the drug-filled rocker brings you into his dark, scary, mildewy world as he prepares for a show. Video of a man in trouble after the jump.

Disappearing singer Amy Winehouse has been diagnosed with emphysema, according to her father. "'The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her,' he was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. 'The doctors have said that if she had continued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid-she wouldn't have been able to breathe.' He added: 'She's got emphysema. It's in its early stages, but had it gone on for another month they painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there like an old person with a mask on her face struggling to breathe.'"

A government worker in Japan got in trouble this week for looking at porn at work. Specifically, his computer at his place of employment recorded 780,000 hits on porn sites in nine months. Assuming 22 work days per month, that's nearly 4,000 hits per day! Quite a feat. Even more impressive: he totally got away with in for nine months.

Basket-O-problems Amy Winehouse has a brand new and, probably fun-to-watch, addiction. When not delivering valuables to her jailed husband to trade for drugs, the druggy singer irons things. Every thing. "The troubled star, 24, has been ironing everything she can get her hands on-even towels, sheets and scarves. A source said: 'She has become absolutely obsessed with ironing things... She's a very obsessive person and has always been addicted to something. We've had cannabis, cocaine, crack, heroin and her husband Blake Fielder-Civil. All the others have been rather more destructive, apart from knitting, which she has also had an on/off love affair with. But ironing is definitely her new favorite.'" [Showbiz Spy]

A source tells us that Hollywood Insider host and booze hound Pat O'Brien (formerly of Access Hollywood) has chosen Los Angeles' Wonderland Center to be his latest rehab destination. The posh, Laurel Canyon house of detox is well known for hosting one Lindsay "Exhaustion" Lohan about a year ago. Though offering a fairly comprehensive treatment program, the Center also offers pampered celebrity must-haves like spa service and gourmet food. Lohan has since been to two other rehab centers, so it leads one to wonder if the drunken, mustachioed gossip monger, who has been to rehab once before himself, will be back to "sucking your tits" in no time. What these people really need is a good old state-run detox facility where you sit in a bare white room with a shivering methadone addict for three days while watching the spiders crawl by. Or, you know, functioning support systems waiting for them on the outside. Whichever. Bonus Pat O'Brien sex call/Alec Baldwin scaring children call mash-up after the jump.