So I think Thailand is in the brink of Civil War, Turkey is playing Armenia in football and Pakistan is ready to collapse into chaos. Oh well HERE’S AMY WINEHOUSE.

Apparently, in a shocking turn, Amy Winehouse is…on drugs? Overdosing? An ugly crack whore? Ugh…

From The Sun:

By VIRGINIA WHEELER

Published: 01 Sep 2008

SHOCK details of Amy Winehouse’s drug use emerged last night – she binged on crystal meth and may have brain damage after a 36-HOUR pot marathon.

The singer, 24, suffered two major overdoses, with such bad convulsions that they were “like a scene from The Exorcist”.

And her body is so frail from drug use that doctors were scared she would break bones during a fit.

A close pal of Amy’s laid bare the truth – warning medics said one more overdose will probably kill her.

The friend revealed:

AMY’S first overdose in August last year was from cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, ketamine and crystal meth.

SHE was advised to see a psychiatrist after displaying “multiple personality traits” that made her a suicide risk.

HER second overdose was in July – when she inhaled an “inhuman” amount of hash that left her vomiting uncontrollably and hallucinating.

At the time devoted dad Mitch, 54, said it was a “bad reaction to her medication”.

Nasty

MEDICS are worried Amy’s brain was damaged by the cannabis overdose – she displayed symptoms normally associated with schizophrenia.

The pal yesterday said: “The future is bleak, bleak, bleak.

“Mitch does everything he can to protect his daughter - but his ‘explanation’ for Amy’s hospital dash in July was just simply untrue.

“She had smoked an inhuman amount of hash which resulted in acute cannabis poisoning. You have to take a s***load of pot to suffer that severe a reaction.

“It’s thought she had been smoking it for 36 hours.

“Amy’s fits were as bad as the convulsions she had during her overdose in August last year. No one has mentioned her meth use before – but that stuff is truly nasty.

“She is in need of years of psychiatry and medical treatment if she has a hope.”

The star is facing legal action after pulling out of a concert in Paris on Friday hours before she was due to headline it.

She is next due to perform on Saturday at the Isle of Wight’s Bestival.

v.wheeler@the-sun.co.uk

We just got a press release from Steven Tyler’s publicist regarding the Aerosmith frontman’s recent recuperation in rehab:

Steven Tyler checked himself into a rehab facility earlier this month after a series of surgeries and post-operative physical therapy (to correct long-time foot injuries resulting from his trademark athletic performance onstage).
 
“The doctors told me the pain in my feet could be corrected but it would require a few surgeries over time,” Tyler says.  “The ‘foot repair’ pain was intense, greater than I’d anticipated. The months of rehabilitative care and the painful strain of physical therapy were traumatic.  I really needed a safe environment to recuperate where I could shut off my phone and get back on my feet.  Make no mistake, AEROSMITH has no plans to stop rocking.  There’s a new album to record, then another tour.

So…accordign to this his rehab stay has nothing to do with dionysian partying and drug use? This is jut a little fishy, innit?

I guess this kinda makes sense, though. If old Jagger lips were dipping into the horse again maybe his band wouldn’t need to hire pro songwriters to crank out the radio hits.  And with their legendary association with drugs, why woudln’t Tyler admit to poppin pain killers? I dont’ know about you, but I’m just about over tolerating his elder statesman of rock sobriety.

If so, then perhaps Victoria, BC Canada is where you might want to be.

Citing many problems with open transient drug use on street corners, there seems to be much concern surrounding the health of a once vibrant city… heh… From what I’m reading it sounds like that part of Candinadia is turning into downtown Frisco.

(Victoria, B.C. mayor Alan Lowe) thinks Vancouver may be on the right track, offering such services as a supervised injection site where injection drug users can fix in a controlled, “safer” environment rather than in streets and alleyways. Mr. Lowe wants to open a “supervised consumption site” where users can both inject and smoke drugs.

I coulda swore we had those things here in the United States… I think we call ‘em train tracks.

Hey, I’ve got a good idea… Let’s get all them people who don’t have shit to do or anywhere to go… and lets legally get them all just fucked up enough and let those son muh bitches roam free. Sounds like a movie premise.

Help is nice for people who need such, I suppose. But a new outlet must be found… Yeah, i’m sure they won’t just let anyone come in and do whatever. Perhaps potentially taking an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach towards the average party people just wanting their self instigated downward spiral kicks. But with open arms to junkies and weathered veterans who have been pumping themselves full of shit for years to the point of oblivion it almost seems as if they’re preparing to take the “If you ain’t gak’d, here smoke it” approach.

The mind is a terrible thing to waste. Drug addicts creep me out…

—————> There was another sentence or two here, but I awoke to see that this post had been altered the day after I put it up.