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Her management notoriously tried to get Winehouse to stay alive and keep making music. She made a song about it [0].

I think simply getting a paycheck was quite a contribution to these artists' demise. Though he managed to not die directly as a result of the heroin that consumed his existence, the late Matt Dike autobiographically remarked (paraphrasing here) that the worst thing in the world for a junkie was unlimited resources.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehab_(Amy_Winehouse_song)



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