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'I was offered cocaine on my first day at the BBC': Ex-producer reveals how executives were praised for drug use...extraordinary personality.' Amy Winehouse's father also pleaded with MPs to improve facilities for drug addicts after telling of the guilt he felt over his daughter's descent into heroin and cocaine abuse. BBC to allow BNP supporters... In this article: Cocaine, Richard Bacon, Heroin, Amy Winehouse, BBC, Natasha Collins, and Suicide |
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Sunday Mirror | October 20, 2009
Amy Winehouse's dad warns MPs alcohol can lead to heroin and cocaine
Amy Winehouse's dad warns MPs alcohol can lead to heroin and cocaine Singer Amy Winehouse's dad yesterday warned MPs that alcohol is leading people on to heroin and cocaine. Mitch Winehouse, whose daughter has a history of drug and booze...
In this article: Cocaine and Amy Winehouse
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Contactmusic.com | October 21, 2009
Amy Winehouse - Winehouses Dad Calls For Addicts To Be Given Free Heroin
Amy Winehouse - Winehouses Dad Calls For Addicts To Be Given Free Heroin AMY WINEHOUSE - WINEHOUSE'S DAD CALLS FOR ADDICTS TO BE GIVEN FREE HEROIN Caption: Amy Winehouse (Picture) with her Goddaughter Dionne Bromfield after dining at the...
In this article: Amy Winehouse, London, All rights reserved, and Back to Black
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Hecklerspray | October 21, 2009
Amy Winehouse's Dad Wants To Give You Free Heroin
...- decades of free living at home. Now we don't know if Mitch Winehouse is going to ride a sledge like Santa while he hands out his free heroin, but it would be amusing to see Amy Winehouse being mushed along. It would beat a trip to the NHS...
In this article: Amy Winehouse, Sandwich, The Sun, Kate Moss, and UK
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The Sun | October 20, 2009
Amy dad: Give junkies drugs
Amy dad: Give junkies drugs JUNKIES should be given free heroin on the NHS to stop them turning to crime, Amy Winehouse's dad told MPs yesterday. Ex-cabbie Mitch Winehouse, 58, said the move would help addicts as they attempted to kick...
In this article: Amy Winehouse and Switzerland
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New Kerala | July 30, 2009
Winehouse's dad admits faking heart attack to get daughter off drugs
...heart attack to get daughter off drugs London, July 30 : Amy Winehouse's father Mitch has confessed he faked a heart attack in front of her formerly drug addict daughter to get her off heroin. The 59-year-old former cabbie said he was...
In this article: Amy Winehouse, Rehab, and London
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New York Post | September 14, 2009
John Mayer's bloody night out
...a stretcher moments later and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. reuters I don't know about you, but when Amy Winehouse was an impetigo-afflicted, heroin... cbs According to Alex O'Loughlin, the humana humana star of "Three...
In this article: Banana, Impetigo, Emmy Award, Apple, Amy Winehouse, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Lower East Side
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Metro | July 28, 2009
How I turned Amy Winehouse into a drug addict
...quickly turned her from a fresh-faced singing sensation to a haggard and gaunt junkie. Blake says Amy tried heroin in late 2006 in East London. The pair had been partying and were lying on bed drinking from a bottle of pink champagne...
In this article: Amy Winehouse, Champagne, The Sun, Crack cocaine, and Back to Black
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Daily Mail | August 09, 2009
Charles's godson on crack: Nicholas Knatchbull, heir to Mountbatten's GBP100m fortune, found in squalid crack den
...on Osea Island, Essex, which also treated Amy Winehouse. His devastated parents are used to Nicholas's relapses by now but, even for him, crack cocaine and heroin represent a new low. Particularly as friends had been led to believe things...
In this article: Nicholas Knatchbull, Prince Charles, Prince William, Crack cocaine, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Cannabis, and Eton
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Amy Winehouse wants to reunite with Blake Fielder-Civil
...next going to get married.' However, the 'Back to Black' hitmaker's parents Mitch and Janis, may not be happy with the development as they blame Blake for introducing their daughter to heroin and crack cocaine. But the music producer thinks...
In this article: Amy Winehouse, News of the World, Crack cocaine, Back to Black, Punjab, West Bengal, and London
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Heroin, or diacetylmorphine (INN), also known as diamorphine (BAN), is a semi-synthetic opioid drug synthesized from morphine, a derivative of the opium poppy. It is the 3,6-diacetyl ester of morphine (di (two)-acetyl-morphine). The white crystalline form is commonly the hydrochloride salt diacetylmorphine hydrochloride, though often adulterated thus dulling the sheen and consistency from that to a matte white powder, which however heroin freebase typically is.
As with other opioids, heroin is used as both a pain-killer and a recreational drug and has an extremely high potential for abuse. Frequent and regular administration is associated with tolerance, moderate physical dependence, and severe psychological dependence which develops into addiction.
Internationally, heroin is controlled under Schedules I and IV of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. It is illegal to manufacture, possess, or sell diacetylmorphine without a licence in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Iran, India, the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and Swaziland.
Under the name diamorphine, it is a legally prescribed controlled drug in the United Kingdom. It is available for prescription to long-term users in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark with counseling to deter addiction.
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