The latest chapter in the increasingly tragic saga of the talented UK singer Amy Winehouse has been captured on film for all to see.  And what a sad sight it is.

Photographs show this poor girl wandering the street outside her London home in the early hours of this morning clad only in her underwear and completely incoherent. ‘Amy Winehouse wanders the streets semi-naked‘ say the headlines and, of course, there she is. You have to ask; what on earth are photographers doing outside her home at 5.45am in the first place.

Anyway. This is a young girl with talent to burn. A fantastic voice that sings with a maturity way beyond it’s years. A voice that can convey pain, joy, intense love and infinate pain. At her age she should be too young to have experienced all these, but she can and did…but for how much longer?.

She is treading a dangerous path. A path well trodden by the likes of the great Billy Holiday, Edith Piaf, Judy Garland and Janis Joplin. All incredible women; all incredible singers and, tragically, all drug addicts. Their god-given talents only giving out when their own bodies gave out. And all at a relatively young age.

Amy Winehouse needs help. She is fast disappearing before our eyes and why? because of drugs. The newspapers may well document her rotting teeth, her incoherent performances and her skeletal body while acknowledging her drug addiction. But why do they not focus instead on the real cause?. And I do not refer to her new husband.

Why does the media not delve into just who is supplying this young woman with the drugs that are destroying her?. Why are Pete Doherty’s drug problems well reported but no research done into just who his suppliers are?. Celebrities get their drugs from somewhere, people. But you only ever hear about Pete, or Kate Moss, or Amy being landed in court for their troubles. The real scum escape publicity.

The real scum who supply these so-called ‘role models’ for our kids and turn them into zombies never rate a mention. I would like to see just one newspaper take the trouble to expose those who do.