US comedian George Carlin in rehab after "too much wine and Vicodin"

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Famously foul-mouthed US comedian George Carlin said he was checking into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center to counter the effects of "too much wine and Vicodin."

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The 67-year-old acid-witted funnyman said he was undergoing a detoxification treatment because of his use of alcohol and the powerful and addictive painkiller Vicodin.

"I'm going into rehab because I use too much wine and Vicodin," he said in a statement released by his publicist. "No one told me I needed this; I recognized the problem and took the step myself," he said.

But Carlin said that his use of the powerful painkiller is "nowhere near the worst you hear about these days.

"I could easily have continued functioning at a good level for a while. But my use would have progressed, I would have been in deeper trouble, and I didn't want to tolerate that," he said.

Carlin, who said he had never entered drug or alcohol rehab before, said he would not immediately return to his entertaining schedule when he gets out of rehab, saying he needed "a little time for myself."