{"id":10166,"date":"2011-07-25T16:33:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T15:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=10166"},"modified":"2011-07-25T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T15:34:08","slug":"deborah-cohen-amy-winehouses-battle-with-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2011\/07\/25\/deborah-cohen-amy-winehouses-battle-with-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Cohen: Amy Winehouse&#8217;s battle with addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/site\/blog\/icons\/debs.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah Cohen\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" align=\"left\" \/>When celebrity ill-health and death play out across the media, the chattering classes inevitably all have their say.<\/p>\n<p>With Jade Goody attention turned to cervical cancer (and created mass hysteria about the age screening should begin); and Kylie\u2019s breast cancer, which she survived, raised its profile.<\/p>\n<p>With Amy Winehouse, who died this weekend, the attention needs to turn addiction. Following her death, the eulogies from famous friends in newspapers and outpourings on Twitter masked a darker tone. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The cause of her death has not, as yet, been confirmed by post-mortem. But irrespective of the cause, what her death revealed was a grotesque misunderstanding for people with addictions\u2014people who, as one person put it \u201cbring it on themselves.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAvoidable though\u2026I have far more sympathy for those shot in Norway than someone who did it to themselves I&#8217;m afraid,\u201d someone posted up on a friend\u2019s Facebook wall\u2014as if people have a limited compassion quota that\u2019s not worth wasting on \u201cwasters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was her own choice; she didn\u2019t have to do it; she could\u2019ve got out, I\u2019ve heard people say over the past few days. It was just a consequence of being part of the uber-cool drug fuelled music scene with it\u2019s week long binges and extravagant excess.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are far more tragedies in the world than a smackhead singer who, effectively, glorified taking drugs,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p>Her celebrity status meant every painful twist in her chaotic lifestyle was played out in lurid detail in the press\u2014 blood soaked ballet pumps, arms razed with scratches, slumped in a corner at parties. Hardly glorification.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d been to several festivals where she\u2019d played\u2014or tried to. Incoherent and stumbling, close-ups on large screens beamed out a small pale girl whose wrinkled skin belied her age.<\/p>\n<p>People turned, tutted, walked away. Some jeered and booed. Others stood and watched wide-eyed in horror. (Some wide-eyed from ingesting a similar cocktail of class As and booze\u2014their drug consumption not having turned bad.) You have to question the wisdom of thrusting such a vulnerable person onto a stage\u2014trial by rather hypocritical festival going crowd. Sympathy, one the whole, was notable by its absence.<\/p>\n<p>But for all those whose every woe or entry into an expensive rehab clinic is an opportunity for a front page exclusive, there are thousands more whose lives are beset by addictions away from the camera lens.<\/p>\n<p>The Priory, with its en-suite bathrooms and lush surroundings, has become synonymous with the excesses of celebrity lifestyle\u2014it\u2019s detox luxe. But if someone who does have the means to afford tailored addiction treatment gets sucked back in once they find themselves surrounded by coked-up liggers again, what about all those who find themselves relying on an already fragmented drug service?<\/p>\n<p>The day after Winehouse\u2019s death, the independent drugs monitoring body DrugScope, and several other charities, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2011\/jul\/24\/drug-charities-devastating-impact-cuts\">warned that budget cuts to drug and alcohol services for young people are having a &#8220;devastating impact<\/a>&#8221; on the fight against substance abuse. Included in these cuts is treatment for young people battling addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, tellingly, comments such as, \u201cHardly, a surprise was it?\u201d and \u201cshe was a junkie, after all\u201d expose a grim reality of the state our understanding about addictions: why they occur in some people; how to treat them; what policy best governs the causes; and, who profits from it all?<br \/>\nIt\u2019s something that the EU is well aware of and is funding a 5-year multi-million Euro project bringing together 90 researchers in 25 countries (the <em>BMJ<\/em> is one of the partner organisations) to explore these very issues.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, ironically given the context, the media invitation to the launch event in May says that the project intends \u201cto shine a bright spotlight\u201d on this too often neglected area of public policy. Let\u2019s hope that spotlight refocuses it on what\u2019s going really change public attitudes\u2014which clearly aren\u2019t the graphic photos of a young woman dying through addiction.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Deborah Cohen<\/strong>, investigations editor, BMJ. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When celebrity ill-health and death play out across the media, the chattering classes inevitably all have their say. 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