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Mitch Winehouse meets politicians to discuss drug rehabilitation
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 2 August 2011
Mitch Winehouse yesterday met with politicians to discuss access to treatment services for young people battling drug problems.
As previously reported, Amy Winehouse’s father said at his daughter’s funeral last week that he plans to launch an Amy Winehouse Foundation, which will be an organisation “to help those struggling with substance abuse”. He added: “In this country, if you cannot afford a private rehabilitation clinic, there is a two-year waiting list for help. With the help of Keith Vaz MP, we are trying to change that”.
It was Vaz, who is chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, and crime minister James Brokenshire with whom Winehouse met yesterday. He said afterwards: “The government needs to look at the reallocation of funding to channel more in to help juveniles. I am convinced that there’s a willingness for people to change the way things are going. The allocation of funding is wrong and they need to look at that and I think they will. It is gratifying… things are going to change”.
Vaz added: “We always revisit our reports but I think it’s important that we look again because it seems, from what he has said today, the level of support is not there and there appears to be an inconsistency of funding”.
Who knew it was that easy? In other Amy Winehouse news, a rep has denied a report in the Daily Mirror that the singer was planning to adopt a ten year old St Lucian girl she met while staying in the country and bring her back to London. The spokesperson told TMZ: “I think she might have met her in St Lucia, but she was in no way about to adopt her”.
And finally, as expected, Amy Winehouse’s albums and singles featured heavily in the charts this weekend. In the singles chart, ‘Back To Black’ was the highest charting Winehouse track, with another four songs in the top 40. Her second album, also called ‘Back To Black’ of course, went to number one in the album chart, while her debut, ‘Frank’, was at five. A combined set of both albums reached number ten.
HMV’s Gennaro Castaldo told the BBC that many stores had struggled to keep up with demand for Winehouse’s albums, saying: “In terms of the album sales, there was a real surge last weekend, both through downloads and people buying the CD. But a lot of stores then ran out of stock and they’ve been waiting for more to arrive, which it did around Thursday”.
Amy Winehouse, of course, died at her London home on 23 Jul. The cause of death is currently unknown.
