Comments on: Leave Amy Winehouse Alone

By: sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:15:26 +0000

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By: LokyTopousy

LokyTopousy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:53:39 +0000

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By: Frank Polenose

Frank Polenose — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:31:54 +0000

Why is she idolised so much? Clearly talented but massively flawed.

By: themewhois

themewhois — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:03:24 +0000

As the daughter of a recovering alcoholic and narcotics addict, I’d like to say that calling names helps nothing. It is a very sad thing that she’s become so dependent on drugs that she’s ruined herself like this. However, people choose to do what they do. While you don’t think about losing your house to gambling, or losing your life to drugs, it is a completely conscious decision whether or not you try it in the first place. And as they say, “It only takes one time.” People go into drugs and alcohol knowing full well the risks they are taking. That’s why people should have the common sense to know their family history and know if they’re at risk for drugs and alcohol addiction. So, while it’s sad that she became addicted, she made the decision to start it in the first place, and for that I have no sympathy.
P.S.- I also agree with Moonshade. People have to have a want to change in their hearts before they can ever make a true effort to really change themselves. For my father it was having his best friend and my mother sit him down and show him what he was doing. For other’s it’s a completely different situation. To Anonymous who said: “Do you think less of people who quit smoking with a patch than people who go cold turkey?” There is a HUGE difference between smoking a cigarette and lighting a crack pipe. While they are both addictive and have risks, one is so much worse than the other. You absolutely cannot compare them to one another. AND, that wasn’t even what moonshade was saying. What they were saying was simply that while you can have compassion for the abuser there’s nothing you can do about it until they’re ready.

By: daedalus2u

daedalus2u — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:28:18 +0000

The reason people denigrate drug users as “crack whores” is because it makes them less than human and the person using the term can then imagine (falsely) that such a thing could never happen to them.

No one starts using drugs with the idea that they will become a crack whore. No one starts using tobacco with the idea they will become adicted and die of emphysema and lung cancer. No one starts gambling with the idea they will lose their house, their retirement and become homeless. No one starts drinking alcohol with the idea they will die of liver failure. No one goes back to her abusive partner with the idea that he will kill her.

These are difficult situations to deal with. We don’t make them easier by treating the people involved in them like crap.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:27:38 +0000

moonshade: Sympathy may not be a solution, but even people who have it in their hearts to set themselves straight will need some help. Addiction is a physical dependency and withdrawl has physical symptoms. In addition, as mzbitca said – society, law, and personal situation can be in the way of being able to beat an addiction.

Do you think less of people who quit smoking with a patch than people who go cold turkey?

By: mzbitca

mzbitca — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:35:44 +0000

I am not saying that she is not at fault for her behavior, or that if we just say “poor amy” she’ll get better. I am just not happy with the gossip bloggers who rip her to shreds, calling her a crackwhore. Again, I have also not said that she is a role model, in fact most celebrities and singers are far from role models. All I want is a little compassion and for people to treat her like a human being and not a total punching bag.

By: Frank Polenose

Frank Polenose — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:54:47 +0000

I agree with the comment higher up – she should not be seen as a “role model” that kids look up to in the sense that she is in a bad way but she’s still alive kind of attitude.

Frank Polenose of http://www.todayloan.co.uk

By: extrapreneur

extrapreneur — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:21:09 +0000

The point is she’s still a druggie. And as she is constantly in the public eye she should be setting an example to the public.

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By: moonshade

moonshade — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:05:11 +0000

I have personally dealt with somebody close to me that had a drug addiction. And while a relatively “compassionate” p.o.v. is that drug addiction is really really hard to give up…I feel that this is not always the case. As outsiders looking in, we use this analogy to explain the behavior of drugs abusers that we don’t understand. But sympathy is NOT the solution. I believe an abuser, if he/she really wants to, can set their life straight. But they have to have it in their hearts to. No amount of therapy or rehab or understanding from friends/family can do it unless they have taken a sincere vow and change within…

This goes to say that as onlookers there are things we can do…to keep our distance, and objective when dealing with drug abusers, because they don’t think like non-abusers…and I think this is the most compassionate thing you can do for them…