Amy Winehouse's father Mitch Winehouse, and other family members and friends, believe Amy may have died from quitting drinking. Yes, it is possible to die from alcohol withdrawal when you're body has become accustomed to it, and the same can happen with certain drugs. Amy was trying to give up the booze and had apparently stopped drinking three weeks ago, but she ignored the doctor's warning to slowly cut down instead of stopping all together.

During Amy's funeral service, Mitch mentioned the doctors told her to gradually reduce her alcohol intake but Amy told him she couldn't do that and it was all or nothing. Sources say Mitch thinks the shock of giving up after everything she has put her frail body through over the last few years "was just too much for her to take."

Doctor Carol Cooper, speaking with The Sun says heaviest drinkers have a form of alcohol withdrawal called delirium tremens, or DTs and a person "may fall into a stupor and sleep it off, or lapse into a coma, or have dangerous seizures."

If DTs did contribute to her death, add that on top of emphysema where you're already having breathing problems and it could surely be a recipe for disaster. If they find drugs were not the cause and it's revealed she did pass from alcohol withdrawal, I think it makes her death even more sad. She was trying to kick the habit after all and it still came back to bite her in the @ss.

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