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Originally Posted by joeysteele

The really sad thing with Amy is that those who were close to her before fame came for her, all say she was dead 'against' the use of hard drugs,she always spoke against them.
It was around or between the albums that she got hooked on them.

She knew the dangers,very clearly, I obviously am extremely sad to see someone who had near all before them as to success losing their life so young, (she was only 8 years older than myself), because of abuse of alcohol and hard drugs.
She though, was against hard drugs, knew the dangers but fell into the trap of them, not helped I think by the hangers on around her who likely believed her fans loved the drugged up drunk image and that she could get away with anything on stage.

Somehow,she just could not get back to her original take on drugs which she herself was against,whether that was because she couldn't or wouldn't is something only she knew.

As to alcoholism etc being diseases,dependency on alcohol and drugs is a condition,it's the serious illnesses and complications that come because of that that brings in the term disease. No one is termed having a disease called alcoholism, but if it affects an organ/s, then,such as in Liver problems, you will then find on medical records 'alcohol related liver disease' or drug related liver disease.
The alcoholic/drugs condition becomes a disease at that point.

I feel Amy maybe didn't want help,she rejected the advice of all warning her, warnings she clearly knew herself since before her success she was dead against hard drugs.So in that she did make a choice to self destruct, yesterday that happened.

As sad as it is, some people don't want to be helped or advised and also don't want to and have no intention of, seeking medical/counselling help themselves either.The sad fact is Amy was possibly one of those people and of course that is hard to accept and sad to think of too.

I came back to applaud this post. Ben is on twitter now pm if you want link. Runs away and lurke. Well said Joey.