I'm really upset by this for some reason. I wasn't even really a fan of hers. I guess that I'm just so used to seeing celebrities plastered all over magazines, drinking and doing crazy things, but they generally seem to pull themselves up enough to keep going and get back on track eventually (Robert Downey Jr. is an example). But Amy didn't make it. One of my best friends died of a heroin overdose years ago... he was also a lifelong off and on user who desperately tried to stay clean and in the end didn't make it.
I feel so sorry for her parents.