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Jersey Shore star’s drug addiction caused by Dancing with the Stars injury

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Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino’s addiction to opioid prescription painkillers began with an injury he sustained on Dancing with the Stars, he says

The Situation is now a spokesperson for a drug that’s used to treat opioid addiction, Suboxone, that’s created a campaign called Reset Reality, which says, “addiction to opioid prescription painkillers is better faced together than alone.”

He told told the AP, “I was suffering a disease” and after rehab, had to shoot the finals season of Jersey Shore. “A little part of me was like, ‘How am I gonna get through this?’ but if you watched I didn’t have one drink.”

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