Too bad the hold drugs get over people and that nobody around her could help.
Posted on 07/27/2011 10:25:39 PM PDT by bad company
Edited on 07/27/2011 11:27:09 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
“It is cheaper to rehabilitate an addict than to send them to prison, so criminalisation doesn’t even make economic sense.”
Ah, but it keeps so many jack booted thugs employed (and here in California a lot of them are unionized Prison Guards).
RIP Amy, the 27 club was already too damn big.
>>RIP Amy, the 27 club was already too damn big.<<
I read an article (here on FR but I can’t find it) that many rockers with addiction problems died at 27. Hendrix, Morrison, Janice, and others...
God, 27 is so young! I knew so much at 27 and knew so little at 30. And that pattern repeated by decade until I hit 50 and realized I knew so little and will know so little forever...
Poor tortured child.
I don’t think she was all that talented but she was popular. She could have done a lot with that.
I really do pray for her soul and her family and friends.
I was thinking that the one artist whose life most closely paralleled Amy’s was Hank Williams Sr. And in the end, it may very well have been the alcohol that did the most damage.
Too bad the hold drugs get over people and that nobody around her could help.
Lohan is next up for the 27 Club. She’s eligible on July 2, 2013. Mark your dead pool in the fall of 2012.
She looked considerably better in the last photos taken of her, it’s usually the first binge after not using for awhile that winds up killing you.
Addiction as a “romantic disease” is today’s equivalent of “consumption” (tuberculosis). But back then, living was hard enough.
My Nephew was an addict. He started doing drugs at age 19. He had a very high IQ but by the age of 26 his brain was burned out. He took his own life by breaking a Natural Gas pipe line in the apartment he was renting. In his suicide note, the line, “I’m not smart anymore” stood out. His mother and father still grieve after 7 years and still blame themselves. They had 4 kids, 3 of them are fine, one failure but not their fault IMO.
An incredibly talented individual.
R.I.P.
Still sad what and how it happens. Don’t think there is anything you can do for someone that is hooked until they decide themselves. Lost a few friends. Either dead or ruined their lives. Sad.
It was not their fault.
Sad. Some of that damage would have been reversible had he asked the right people.
A body, believed to be that of singer singer Amy Winehouse, is removed from her home following her death, in north London, Saturday, July 23, 2011.
Well said.
“It is cheaper to rehabilitate an addict than to send them to prison, so criminalisation doesn’t even make economic sense.”
part of rehabilitation is hitting bottom. For many folks, this means several trips to jail, prison, hospital or what not. I’m not talking about confinement on YOUR terms, like these stars who “check in”, I’m talking about losing everything, and doing some real time.
further, as a society member, I’m not too concerned about rehabing a person, unless they want to be rehab’d, I’m concerned with getting drug addicts off the street where they can cause harm to me or my family, or themselves and their families (often their own children).
As someone who put the cork in the bottle many 24 hours ago, I will tell you, that you cannot force anyone to rehab. Those that try are beating their heads against a wall. I have never in my sober career seen anyone really rehab, that didn’t want to. I’ve seen plenty go through the motions, and get released by the courts, but they were right back again, using, until they either hit the morgue, or hit bottom hard enough to want to sober up.
It makes no economic sense to send people to rehab who don’t want to be there. It just don’t work.
(but let me be clear, the feds have no business in the drug war, it is a states right and power)
Recovery isn't for those that need it, but for those that want it. She didn't want it bad enough.
The addict has to decide to take the risk that life will be either more livable or just plain better without the drugs and/or alcohol. Sometimes it may seem to take awhile to comprehend that it is not only much better but life (as opposed to the distorted reality of the drunk or drug addict.) I have been where your nephew was at more than once and God intervened both times to save my life. May your family find peace. It has to be so painful.
No great loss in my book.
That’s why I’m not quick to blame parents. I know way too many families that have raised two or three great kids, and one bad one. It seems to happen with great regularity.
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