After entering in silence, Philip Seymour Hoffman recently checked out of a treatment facility and admitted that he spent about a year battling a major drug problem. The Oscar winner tells TMZ he fell of the wagon with prescription pills and eventually started doing heroin. But the star – who battled substance abuse in the past, yet had been clean for over two decades – recognized the escalating issue and checked himself into a detox center on the East Coast. He was there for 10 days, left on Friday and is already back to working on a film in Europe Hoffman credits “a great group of friends and family” for helping him seek assistance and will next be seen in Catching Fire . We wish him the best of luck wit his recovery.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman Departs Detox Center, Admits to Heroin Use
