The Libertines frontman Pete Doherty left a rehabilitation center in Thailand after a brief stint trying to get clean. The musician had a setback in December when someone sent him heroin for the second time and he relapsed. After receiving a treatment plan that included methadone, exercise and counseling, Doherty is back with his bandmates recording new music, The Daily Mail reports.
"He received a lot of fan mail which we searched before handing it over," Simon Mott, head of the rehab center, said. "Sadly, on two occasions, we intercepted drugs we had to destroy. It sickened me that there are such disgusting people out there who would go to such lengths to sabotage his treatment."
It's unclear whether the frontman is actually doing better, but the Mail reports that he beat the disease. Hopefully Doherty can find solace in sobriety. The singer recently said that he's been more creative when not using drugs, NME notes.
"Long before drugs, it was music that would raise my spirits or just make me want to live or believe in something," he said. "It's a great new drug, being clean. It's not really a drug at all — it's finding myself. Drugs don't make you more creative and one of the great things about being clean is that I'll be able to fulfill that side of things [my creativity] ... I feel as if something inside me is shifting."
A counselor will go on tour with Doherty and the band plans to start a special fund to get addicts help at the same facility in Thailand.
Libertines bandmate Carl Barât told NME in November that he and Doherty wrote five songs for their new album.
