Isn't Amy Winehouse in her 20's? So that would probably put her mom in her early 40's? Which would make her mom a teenager in the 1970's?
I'm pretty sure that Amy Winehouse's mom partied a bit then in the 70's and 80's (and unless she's burnt out or became a dork like retoxjosh, then I'm sure she probably still goes out on the weekends and maybe smokes one or hits a bump while having some drinks)
Most people aren't drug addicts. Very few are. (at least with coke and pot)
Some people get addicted to EVERYTHING. Drugs, alcohol, gambling...they just have addictive personalities. So, the govt. in all their wisdom dumbs down the rest of society for that 1% who can't handle their shit.
You can have a bar full of a thousand people drinking and having a good time and getting laid. You know blowing off steam. But let ONE asshole walk in there who CAN'T handle it and kill somebody...then you have the media and the govt. condemning EVERYBODY that drinks. (thus our ridiculouos dui laws that aren't even set up to catch "drunk" drivers)
It's the same with other drugs, not just alcohol. Yeah, it's politically incorrect now to say you party. And then you have a generation of sheep like retoxjosh who grew up with the War On Drugs.
Newsflash: Drugs are fun, and it feels good getting high on a Friday night and going out to nightclubs and having some FUN. And that's what 99% of people who party experience. They're not "running from demons" or some other phsychological bullshit.
If drugs didn't make you feel good, then people wouldn't do them to begin with.
Me? I'm like most average people. I work all week. I stay home. I play with my dogs, I spend time with my kids (took them to see "Bolt" last night) Pretty much a "boring" "normal" lifestyle.
But if I can get out on a Friday night? I become my true self with no responsibilities for a few hours. Do a little club hopping, drink some jaegar bombs, maybe pick up a gram of coke if I can find it...and hopefully end up in some sort of orgy. lol
Then I head home and put my "family man" mask back on and go back to "normal" again. Just like millions of other people do.
Now, when I was playing in my band full time...we played 7 nights a week EVERY week and traveled all over the country. There wasn't any "normal" time then lol Just a great non-stop party that lasted almost 30 years.
Had a blast. Didn't become "addicted" and didn't need "rehab"... Some people do. It just isn't in the physiology of the vast majority of people to become addicted to stuff.
We didn't use to come down on musicians and actors for partying. Now, it's so politically incorrect that the "just say no" dorks jump on every star that has a good time.
Nobody was giving Led Zeppelin, or Aerosmith, or The Beatles, or The Stones, ~insert 1000 other rock bands names here~ any shit for all the drugs (including some REAL hard drugs) that they were doing.
The Stones did some of their greatest music on heroin. Now THAT is a nasty drug.
And The Beatles wrote and recorded some of the greatest music of all times while tripping on acid. (Which I fully endorse, just haven't found any in about 10 years)
And if you look at the other arts...literature, art, theater...you will find the same exact thing.
But now? Amy Winehouse does some little girly drugs and everybody freaks out. Hey, if she has an addictive personality then she's fucked no matter what. She'll either kill herself on cigarettes or booze anyway. Whereas Steven Tyler is still alive and kicking ass (and doing blow) Just different people.