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Butch Patrick, who portrayed Eddie on 'The Munsters,' checked into a New Jersey rehab facility two weeks ago. Though Patrick, 57, was seeking help with a 40-year addiction to alcohol, cocaine and marijuana, he left rehab shortly after and nearly overdosed last week.

"He not only continued with drugs and alcohol after checking himself out of rehab," Butch's agent Jodi Ritzen told RadarOnline.com, "but started to black out and make rash decisions while under the influence causing him to nearly overdose last Thursday evening."

Patrick has been filming an A&E series, 'Life's a Butch,' and his producer, John Rose, made arrangements for the actor to get to Los Angeles for help.

Ritzen told Radar that Patrick's family met him at the airport in LA Friday, staging an intervention.

"Butch is uninsured, but they were able to check him into an Orange County facility after they offered him free treatment," Ritzen said. "His situation is so dire that he was given a scholarship estimated to be worth $25,000 per week for his treatment."

A "shaken and emotional" Patrick will remain in treatment for a minimum of 30 days, with seven days spent in detox.

"I can only hope that fans understand the severity of Butch's problem and will continue to show their support for him through all of this," Ritzen said. "I would rather have Butch meet with fans clean and sober then take the chance of him winding up dead."

In 1989, PEOPLE ran a story titled "Once a Little Munster, Butch Patrick Grew Up to Battle Scarier Demons." The profile now reads almost prophetically: "Ever since 'The Munsters,' Patrick -- who later acquired a felony drug conviction -- has felt sure that another monster success was just around the corner."

Patrick, 35 at the time, told PEOPLE: "I've been trying to hit home runs all my life and striking out. Now I'm going to try to hit a few singles and doubles." He recalled buying drugs for the first time at age 16 and battling the problem ever since. "I never did heroin, never put a needle in my arm, but I did a lot of coke and psychedelics. Occasionally I'd be the middleman and get the stuff for free. I'm basically a hustler."

Butch professed to many years with "no ambition," and told PEOPLE he had quit his addictions in 1987. "I straightened my own life out in my own time," he said. "Maybe I should have gone to rehab, but I didn't. A little man inside me said it was time to get my life in order."

Source:http://www.popeater.com/2010/11/24/b...share_facebook