He is entering drug rehab for addiction to prescription drugs.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060505/...atrick_kennedy
WASHINGTON - Rep. Patrick Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) said Friday he was entering treatment for addiction to prescription pain drugs after a middle-of-the-night car crash near the Capitol that he said he had no memory of. "That's not how I want to live my life," he declared.
Kennedy, D-R.I., the son of Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), said he would seek immediate treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
His one-car accident about 3 a.m. Thursday was the talk of the capital, with police saying he appeared to be intoxicated but Kennedy saying later that day that he had had nothing to drink.
For Kennedy, who said he has suffered from depression and pain-medication addiction for years, the trip to the Mayo Clinic was his second in less than five months. He went there over Christmas and said he returned to Congress "reinvigorated and healthy."