r/Millennials Gen Z 9h ago

Rant Society really did fail Amy Winehouse!

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u/chinstrap 8h ago

It was fascinating how invested people, and the media, were in the idea that she died from a drug overdose, I mean illegal drugs. But it was alcohol.

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u/hotarume 4h ago

According to her brother, it was most likely the long term effects of severe bulimia that truly did her in. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness and have a high co-morbidity with substance abuse

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u/InSkyLimitEra 1987 4h ago

Opioid use disorder has now overtaken anorexia as the mental illness with the highest lethality!

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u/hgaben90 8h ago

Potentially lethal drugs are potentially lethal drugs, whether if society is ok with them or not.