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Originally Posted by Shaun
I find it sad that people reduce drug addicts to just a statistic. They were a person too. Not every living moment was spent with a heroin needle, you know.
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Which is a matter for her family to grieve over, not people clutching copies of Back to Black and being completely hysterical over someone whose battle with addictive substances was laid bare for all to see and was clearly heading in this direction anyway. I realise I'm being really blunt but I think people being hysterical brings that out in me, haha. I'm not aiming this at anyone in particular, I'm just kind of annoyed by the stuff I'm reading on my Twitter feed, Facebook etc...
Zippy, the fact of the matter is that to quit addiction, you need to go cold turkey - Amy was an adult so it was impossible to
make her give it up, so the choice was entirely hers. She still chose to take drugs and get drunk in the first instances, so regardless of whether or not she was mentally capable of quitting doesn't really factor into the equation for me - it was her choice, making her death her own fault. The situation in Norway was not about choice - I'm pissed off because people are raving on about Amy Winehouse instead of focusing on the real tragedy that occurred this weekend. Meh.