Amy Winehouse - Help others won’t get

AMY WINEHOUSE has struggled with alcohol and drug addiction publicly for so very long that her premature death cannot have been a great surprise.

That, however, does not make it any less tragic.

Despite a loving family, a music industry that would earn huge profits had she been able to use her spectacular talents, her own wealth and considerable intelligence, she could not confront, much less defeat, the demons that sustained her addictions.