Libertines co-frontman Pete Doherty has booked himself into the London branch of The Priory in a bid to kick his high profile drug addiction, which last year earned him a spell in prison.

Writing about the experience on his website (www.babyshambles.com) Doherty said, “I’m fine… they’ve whacked me on loads of medication. 16 different colours [of] pills like hundreds of thousands or Bassets Jelly Babies. Very deranged and murky recollection of the last few days. A gaggle of nurses around my crinkly bed, they all jump as I wake up and yelp something about jelly. Then I notice a needle sticking out of my arm and spots of blood. What the fuck is going on? Vomit and shrieks, some girl warbling down the corridor in a towel. At least my laptop is here still. The only one who ever stood by me.”

Doherty was jailed for three months (with a further 3 months suspended) last August for burgling bandmate Carl Barat’s home. He broke into the flat on Harley Street, central London, in July while the rest of the band were on tour in Japan after being asked to leave the group because of his heroin and crack addiction.

While Doherty battles his addiction, final mixing work is under way on the Libertines’ second album on which co-producer and former Clash man Mick Jones has said: “a record as good as this only comes along once in a generation”.