Amy Winehouse Drug Overdose

The Sun UK is reporting today that Amy Winehouse was admitted to the hospital for a drug overdose, and not exhaustion as her record company reported. The Sun says Amy was given adrenaline and her stomach pumped. Let’s get technical for a moment. Adrenaline would be used only if Amy was having a circulatory collapse from her heart stopping, or a severe lack of fluids, but they would simply give her fluids intravenously first. Adrenaline causes the heart to beat fast, and so do some drugs, which means that it is unlikely she received adrenaline, unless staff thought she was overdosing and having a very severe allergic reaction to something, and couldn’t give her benadryl due to its sedative side effect. It is likely her stomach was pumped. First they might try gastric lavage to try to get out pill fragments, but in this case staff shove a big tub down her throat and into her stomach. Bottles of activated charcoal are then fed into the tube to absorb any drugs still in her stomach. The gastric lavage part is technically the stomach pumping. The drug used to stop the drugs in her blood from working is usually Narcan, but it is most effective with opiate drugs, so it really depends on what she overdosed on.

Amy needs to be involuntarily admitted for a psychiatric consult, and then shipped off to involuntary rehab, because now it’s a life or death situation.

It’s a wonder Amy has any fans left at all. She doesn’t show up to half her concerts, and yet she still gets nominated for awards. I wouldn’t give her a job as a scarecrow, even though she’d probably be darn good at it.