Amy Winehouse. End of 2008 has one simple miracle.
The girl is now 25-years old and took a record 5 Grammys early 2008. Her "Back to Black" CD ran #1 worldwide for 2007 and still selling top level. A jazz singer for the ages.
Same time, Amy got hooked bad on speedball -- heroin + cocaine. Criminals using the Boost date rape drug got that rolling. In 2008, a continuing staph infection tore up her face, throat and lungs.
Photos from March through September look like a horror movie. BELOW THE FOLD.
Now... Amy gave her life over to London Clinic mid-September. Full medical protocol -- with spectacular results. Three months clean, off narcotics. Cosmetic surgery for the staph abscesses and malnutrition.
BIG MYSTERY ::: What is London Clinic doing? Can a med system break addiction in 3 months? Is this something that can be applied elsewhere? Is London Clinic's system a suitable alternative to mass incarceration?
MSM coverage for the meds =EQ= zero. No surprise there.
The world's most famous junkie goes clean.
The press ignores it.
The public makes a joke of it. DIGG IT has the highest count for this lampoon of her condition:
DIGG IT winner Amy-zombie
London Clinic has been working with new tools. Hypnosis. Blockers. Sleep monitoring. Structured groups. Big range of stuff, there.
In the U.S., we're putting money behind known-to-be-bad programs. Principally D.A.R.E. and incarceration. What we are doing doesn't work.
(Unless you're selling drugs. Then, the U.S. disaster works just fine.)
Here is Amy in March 2008.
She was down stick thin, under 40-kg. Her face in the photo is painted over to cover a massive staph infection. No exaggeration, Amy was dying.
So -- BELOW -- here's how Amy started. Normal enough looks. The lip stud started off as metal, got made into a tattoo, then got wasted completely from the staph bacteria eating it alive.
Now, the London Clinic system has clicked to beat the band. Amy is back as far as a druggie can get with 3 months clean.
Other photos show the same improvement:
Amy sitting in St. Lucia
Amy sitting looking normal St. lucia
The details of improvement include cosmetic surgery for the dozens of staph abscesses. We could talk about boobs, too. Long term drug and bacterial damage doesn't repair itself.
Here is what Amy's face looked like AFTER detox and BEFORE cosmetic surgery.
The key for health care and for overall health economics --
What. Is. London. Clinic. Doing ???
If this is a system that combines blockers/hypnosis/sleep_therapy/whatever then it can be replicated. To Hell with any claimed proprietary rights. The planet has tens of millions of druggies/junkies. These people need hope, big time.
May goodness and mercy follow Amy all the days of her life....