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    Winehouse family hopes to set up drug rehab center

    LONDON (AP) — The family of Amy Winehouse is seeking political backing to set up a drug rehabilitation center in her name.

    The late singer's father, Mitch Winehouse, met British politicians Monday to discuss setting up a treatment center for young people.

    Opposition Labour politician Keith Vaz promised him lawmakers would look at the issue, saying he was grateful to Winehouse's father for speaking "from his heart, drawing on his experiences" during the talks.

    Drug treatment in the UK is currently offered through local health bodies, or at expensive private clinics. Rehabilitation workers say there is often a waiting list for the local bodies, while private facilities are unaffordable for many.

    After the meeting Winehouse said he wanted to "keep busy" and get involved in things that would have been important to his daughter.

    "That is why we are going to be setting up the Amy Winehouse Foundation," he said. "This isn't only important to me, this is important to our whole country.

    "There's hundreds of thousands of young people in situations today that could be avoided, and these are our future policemen, doctors and lawyers and solicitors, that we could help."

    Amy Winehouse, who had struggled for years with drug and alcohol addiction, was found dead at her London home on July 23. The results of toxicology tests to determine the cause of death are due later this month.

     

    224 comments

    • A Yahoo! User  •  10 mths ago
      I guess you can't relate until you've been there. Someone can only be helped if and when they are ready...stats show few of us make it....but I got help after I reached bottom. THANK GOD
      • Sarah Bear 2010 10 mths ago
        Congratts Jason
      • Carol 10 mths ago
        I think people just want to be hateful. Addiction is a lifelong disease that you can't just cure over night. I seriously doubt there was anything her parents could do to get her straight. She had to be willing to get the help herself. She is not the only addict in the world to succumb to such an illness. So I think it's a smart thing for her parents to try to take something so tragic and turn it into something positive.
      • Tuffy 10 mths ago
        I'm glad you made it. People don't understand until it hits home. You always think "this could never happen to me or my family". So not true. God bless you.
    • Paul  •  10 mths ago
      And what will this rehab do differently from the four(?) she walked out of?
      • Mike 10 mths ago
        i agree
    • S  •  9 mths ago
      A man is choosing to use his inheritance to make a positive change in this world yet all of the comments below are as negative as can be. What’s wrong with you people? I sincerely hope you never have to deal with addiction in your lives or that of those you love because you certainly don’t have the heart to return from that battle whole again.
      • CLAUDE FUNSTON 9 mths ago
        I did deal with my addiction and NOBODY gave a rat's xxx when I needed help.
      • Demosthenes J 9 mths ago
        No, he's choosing to use his inheritance HOPING to make a positive change in this world, but drugs and drug addiction have been around for centuries and he's chasing a looney tunes rainbow dream if he expects THIS time to be different.
    • Coondog  •  9 mths ago
      So many negative posts out there. Haven't any of you ever suffered a loss so great that you never recover completely? Kinda like her parents are going through. If so how can you even think the thoughts you have posted. You suck
      • American 9 mths ago
        Your so right, her parents tried to help her many times, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. I know this very well.
      • Demosthenes J 9 mths ago
        Yes, we have. And we've figured out how to get on in life without blubbering to the press to feel sorry for us.
    • BrokeNose Geraldo  •  10 mths ago
      Get well soon Amy, we're all pulling for you.
      • Myself 10 mths ago
        I almost prolapsed my uterus from laughing so hard.
      • Miss CLeo 10 mths ago
        You're KILLING me! Now that was the funniest comment anyone has left. Thanks for making my day. That was FUNNY!
      • BrokeNose Geraldo 10 mths ago
        It was my understanding she'd been upgraded to "alive".
    • Patton  •  10 mths ago
      Rehabs are a farce. Their is absolutely no science behind them, and their success rates, which are about 10%, are the same as that for long term smokers who quit on their own. Without a shread of imperical evidence, these money making ventures use unproved methods that are about as effective as magic beans, and are usually just a way for someone to have a jail sentence lessened. Until these quacks can provide proof of their effectiveness in studies by a independent institution, no more should be built and no insurer should provide coverage for what is an unscientific and unproved treatment.
    • the_angry_american  •  10 mths ago
      The Amy Winehouse Rehab Center will be built with bricks made of 100% irony.
    • SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM  •  10 mths ago
      Who cares that Amy Winehouse died!?! Who are Justin Allen 23, Brett Linley 29, Matthew Weikert 29, Justus Bartett 27, Dave Santos 21, Jesse Reed 26, Matthew Johnson 21, Zachary Fisher 24, Brandon King 23, Christopher Goeke 23, and Sheldon Tate 27....all are Marines that gave their lives this week for you. There is no media for them... not even a mention of their names.
    • foreigner427  •  10 mths ago
      Welcome to the Amy Winehouse Treatment Center, named after the person who demonstrated that they don't work.
    • fredd  •  10 mths ago
      No, no, no.
    • Smuckers  •  10 mths ago
      You cannot help the druggies that WANT to be druggies... just saying..
    • Frank Lodico  •  10 mths ago
      better late than never. Wait, too late.
    • Christopher John  •  10 mths ago
      If the family wishes to make a positive contribution in the name of their late daughter, they will stipulate that the center excludes the deadly 12-step cult, a quack faith-healing fraud that causes more harm than substance abuse itself.

      Amy Winehouse went through rehab in 2008. If it was a 12-step-cult "rehab", it may very well be what killed her.

      Fortunately, the abuses of the 12-step-cult — the wholesale subversion of the medical and judicial establishments, and the corruption of popular opinion — are not as widespread in the U. K. (though it is still dangerous there); nor is the U. K. as culturally inclined to give a free pass to a sick, abusive faith-healing cult.

      To all cult apologists/murderers who wish to complain: a hearty G F Y in advance. And maybe you should do a Tenth Step about the people you — you, personally — have killed.
    • Scott  •  10 mths ago
      And what was the reason for them not setting up this same rehab center to save there own wayward child?????? Anything to make a buck and a name for yourself these days.
    • MichaelK  •  10 mths ago
      A little late. She said "no, no, no" to rehab. She got her way.
    • Usama  •  10 mths ago
      Governments should spend the billions on rehabilitating drug addicts instead of spending billions on the War on Drugs and imprisoning non violent drug users. Drug addiction is a disease and should be treated accordingly.
    • Mr. Good Guy.  •  10 mths ago
      Great!!! And in a related story; Micheal Jackson's family is starting a day care center.
    • Britannia  •  10 mths ago
      My goodness......what loveluycompassionate people we have posting on this forum. Jen is absolutely correct, they lost their daughter and are trying to find something positive from that and here you all are......making spiteful and cruel remarks about them.
    • Miss CLeo  •  10 mths ago
      Any truth the the rumor about the Palins sponsoring an Abstinence Clinic?
    • David  •  9 mths ago
      If it didn't do Winehouse any good, what makes them think that a center in her honor will benefit others?
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