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It's Official: Alcohol Killed Winehouse

Coroner rules it 'death by misadventure'

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 26, 2011 9:05 AM CDT | Updated Oct 26, 2011 10:52 AM CDT

(Newser) – It wasn’t a lack of alcohol, but alcohol itself that killed Amy Winehouse. A coroner has determined that Winehouse consumed a “potentially fatal” amount of alcohol the night she died, and ruled it a “death by misadventure,” the AP reports. A pathologist says Winehouse drank a “very large quantity of alcohol” and was five times over the drunk-driving limit. Her doctor says the singer had started drinking again, after abstaining for a while, just days before her death.

In this Friday Feb. 16, 2007 file photo British singer Amy Winehouse poses for photographs after being interviewed by the Associated Press at a studio in north London.
In this Friday Feb. 16, 2007 file photo British singer Amy Winehouse poses for photographs after being interviewed by the Associated Press at a studio in north London.   (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
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Riffran
Oct 26, 2011 9:18 PM CDT
I believe the lryics for a Queen song are applicable in her story...another one bites the dust
Riffran
Oct 26, 2011 6:29 PM CDT
meh,,
BettySue777
Oct 26, 2011 4:46 PM CDT
Whatch her REHAB VIDEO. She said no,no, no... i won't go, go go. Now she is dead, dead, dead, and gone, gone, gone!  When you have a real problem get help. But the problem is people with real additions want no help..It is aweful to stand by and whatch a loveone self destruct. And they refuse your help!  Die.Then you bury them! 
 

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