Substance Abuse - the good news and the bad news

So - wrestlers' addiction issues have been in the news this week with Maven Huffman's doctor/pharmacy shopping arrest, as discussed on ITVR over the weekend, and Scott Hall's arrest earlier this week for drunkenly choking out his girlfriend - so drunk was he, in fact, that initially the local jail wouldn't even process him without a hospital stop first. Hall acknowledges having fallen off the wagon, though denies any domestic violence took place.

Huffman has accepted a WWE offer of rehab (policy to offer any ex-employee/'independent contractor'), and we here at In This Very Ring of course offer him our very best wishes on his road to recovery. As for Scott Hall, a little less clear where he goes from now, as he has now gone to rehab twice on the WWE dime. Nonetheless of course, we wish him well, for the sake of his girlfriend, children and family.