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Unless Jeff truly wants to get sober, he will never get clean. He'll go to rehab, go through the hells of withdrawal, he might start feeling good again after a few weeks clean, but once the going gets tough, he'll revert back to his old ways just so he can keep performing. Getting clean is easy. Maintaining sobriety is the real challenge
As cheesy as it sounds, I think the main reason why Shawn Michaels was able to MAINTAIN his sobriety is because he found God. He replaced something with something else. It's a whole lifestyle change. After WM 14, Michaels had the luxury of knowing that he didn't have to work the next day, and take time off away from the ring. Even when he wasn't working anymore, he was still having trouble quitting the pills. He was backstage just to visit a house show and Nash could tell he was on something and saw that he was out of it. Trying to get off opiates when you know you gotta go to work the next day is not fun.
As long as he's still wrestling, I don't ever see Jeff being completely sober, unless he finds something greater to substitute for the drugs. As long as he continues to wrestle and still make money, he's gonna rely on the drugs to cope with the demands of being a pro wrestler.
He's probably thinking "Why get clean, when I know I'm gonna slip down the road?" He's numbing his emotions, so once he starts thinking about how CM Punk is that much better than him, popping a pill will help his ease his pain. Or once Matt starts thinking about CM Punk tearing Lita a new asshole, he'll head over to The Waffle House to help ease the pain
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