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Hackett to enter rehab in US
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Australian swimming great Grant Hackett has flown to the United States to have treatment for an addiction to a sleeping medication, his manager said.
Hackett, who won 1,500 meters freestyle gold at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, created headlines Down Under this week after being found topless and disoriented at Melbourne’s Crown Casino early on Saturday morning.
“Grant is currently in transit to seek treatment for a dependency to Stilnox medication,” his manager Chris White told News Ltd media. “His family and friends are enormously proud of his courage in pursuing this course of action.”
Hackett publicly admitted to a dependency to Stilnox in the lead-up to the 2012 London Games, prompting the Australian Olympic Committee to ban athletes from using it.
The 33-year-old touched down in Los Angeles on Tuesday but denied he was entering a rehabilitation clinic.
“No, not as such ... I’m just going away for a break and looking forward to enjoying myself,” he said at the airport.
“It’s a bit of an exaggeration ... I’m not calling this rehab whatsoever. This is a retreat to get away for a while.”
Hackett’s flight follows the troubles of another Australian swimming great Ian Thorpe, who checked into a health clinic earlier this month to seek treatment for depression.
The five-time Olympic champ, widely regarded Australia’s finest swimmer, had been taking anti-depressants and medication for a shoulder injury.
Hackett, who has worked as a television pundit and for a local bank since retiring from swimming after the 2008 Beijing Games, was photographed shirtless in the lobby of Crown Casino where he was staying at a friend’s apartment.
He told media he had rushed out of the apartment to look for his four-year-old son after waking up to find him missing.
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