[news] Bigger, Uglier Story of Addicted Women Goes Untold

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich | WeNews commentator

Tabloid entertainment media is making young female celebrities with drug problems seem chic. Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich says this trivializes the depth of their actual addiction and the strung-out reality of everyday women lost in our streets.

Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Ritchie, Kate Moss, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse and other beautiful young celebrity women have become prime-time poster girls for the fast life. Court-ordered ankle bracelets that electronically track abusive levels of alcohol in the body are glamorized as fashion statements.

  


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