Gazza back in rehab after drugs arrest

Gascoigne: Back in rehab...again

Former England footballer Paul Gascoigne is back in rehab following his arrest for drugs offences.
Gascoigne had spent a night in police custody last week on suspicion of possessing a class A substance.
According to a national newspaper, the 43-year-old was brought to Providence Projects clinic in Boscombe by friends in a bid to stop him from drinking.
"Gazza's not in a good way. He keeps giving in to the same temptations and he needs help once again," the tabloid quoted a source, as saying.This is happening time and time again and it's difficult to see how he will ever break out of this destructive pattern of behaviour," the source added.
Gazza was earlier warned that he faces being jailed after admitting charges of drunk driving at a short hearing at the Newcastle Magistrates' Court
District Judge Stephen Earl was told that Gascoigne had 142mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath when he was stopped in Jesmond, Newcastle, on October 8 at 2:45pm. The legal limit is 35mg.
Gazza, a former star of Spurs and Newcastle, has been in and out of rehab since he stopped playing football in 2004. He estimates that he has blown up to £20 million on a booze and drug-fuelled lifestyle which included a high-profile divorce from former wife Sheryl, who he admitted to beating on a regular basis for two years.
He first visited the £600-a-week Providence Project days after he tried to take chicken and beer to gunman Raoul Moat during his stand-off with police in Rothbury, Northumberland earlier this year.