On the 5th anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s death, the Amy Winehouse Foundation has opened a recovery home for females getting over drug and alcohol addictions.

The home, known as Amy’s House, is located in London.

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“There are about six women-only rehabs, and beyond that, there’s an even greater paucity of women-specific recovery housing beds,” said Dominic Ruffy, the special project director at the Amy Winehouse Foundation, “there is only one other women-only recovery house in London and it’s only a four-bed with a six-month waiting list.”

“Picture a person who is 14 years old, has come from a broken home, hasn’t engaged at school, ends on a path of addiction and winds up at 25-26 years old going to rehab, learning how to get clean, and then leaving rehab and being told to get on with it. It can be as simple as not knowing how to go about getting your benefits or engaging in college.

“Our experience shows if you give people an extended period of time post-traditional rehabilitation treatment, you will improve the percentage of people who stay clean [in the] long term. We have a saying in recovery that the drink and drugs aren’t our problem, it’s living life clean and sober.”

Amy Winehouse died aged 27 in July 2011 accidental alcohol poisoning. Her family set up the foundation after the singer’s death, which works to prevent the misuse of drugs and alcohol, and to provide support to disadvantaged youth.

 

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