![]() The Winehouse family is not unique in its negative experience of private rehab clinics. The grim failure of this strategy, recorded in prurient detail in the tabloids, culminated in her death. Yet, despite the refusal to follow advice to seek medical treatment famously/notoriously recorded in her award-winning 2006 song, Amy, who could afford the best private clinics, did subsequently enter (and re-enter) rehab. 1 Mitch emphasised the need for residential rehab for ‘problem drug users who could not afford private treatment’. Within days of Amy's death, her father Mitch launched a campaign for the establishment of residential drug rehabilitation centres in memory of his daughter, leading a delegation to meet MP Keith Vaz, chair of the House of Commons home affairs committee. The tragic death of singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse at the age of 27, following a series of highly-publicised problems of drug and alcohol abuse, has been widely interpreted as confirming the conventional view of addiction as a disease requiring medical treatment. ![]() ‘They tried to make me go to rehab, but I said “no, no, no” …’ (Amy Winehouse, Rehab, 2006). ![]()
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