dulayj
Active Member
very depressing news all round -having been on duty all weekend had other things to occupy my thoughts.
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Different songs. The Amy Winehouse/Mark Ronson track was a cover of a song by The Zutons.
Oh well...
I know that -no one could ever confuse the two -they are similar in name only....................
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_(The_Zutons_song) It IS the same song
Valerie by Steve Winward.
I find it strange that people are saying Amy Winehouse didn't die of a drug overdose she died of alcohol poisoning instead. So that makes it OK then --she was not a "druggy" -- she had kicked the habit. Sorry to say this but alcohol is a drug-- albeit a legal one. So drug addiction killed her. Just because alcohol is legally available and is used socially should not blur the reality of what happened to this troubled girl and the danger alcohol presents to people with an addictive personality.
People rarely die of the "addiction" - so in her case she died due to an extremely high level of alcohol being consumed (wasn't the level 416mg, with the pathologist saying 350mg is the level normally associated with fatality).
Although I get the sentiment of what you're saying, it was the amount she consumed that killed her. That amount would kill Mrs E - who drinks a small glass of Rioja once in a blue moon - or a 30-year non-abstinent alcoholic. For any substance addict, it's usually the overdose that does it - you can end up needing more and more to achieve the same "hit" until you go over the edge...
The sad thing is that she obviously wasn't getting the support that someone in her sorry state needed. If I was the father, I would be asking where the Vodka came from, why the doctor (who described her as being "tipsy"), knowing she was trying to overcome her alcoholism, did not alert anyone. What was her close protection person supposed to be doing?
You are correct of course addiction per se doesn't kill. What I was trying to get at was society's strange attitude to different forms of addiction. Her father was a great pains to say she did not die of a drug overdose that she was " in remission" To my mind she merely swapped her drug of choice- with fatal results. It's like "Overdosed on heroin " filthy drug abuser--- deserved everything she got. Got a bit too pi**ed "oh dear how sad" we all make mistakes.
I reckon that sends out the wrong message to youngsters - society says its OK to drink yourself to death but overdose on drugs is some sort of unpardonable sin. I make no distinction--the end result is the same - a young life cut needlessly short.
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