The recent apparent suicide of singer Mindy McCready brought out a lot of discussion on social media.

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Former country music star Mindy McCready, who died this year, made headlines in April 2008 when she claimed a longtime relationship with Clemens.

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Their families and friends can fawn over them in the same breathless tone that People writers use to memorialize Mindy McCready or Whitney Houston.

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We'll never know if another episode or type of treatment would have saved Mindy McCready, but we do know that, for a significant number of Americans, business-as-usual addiction treatment isn't working.

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Mindy McCready, the 37-year-old country singer originally from Ft.

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