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The pupils listened to Sue as she told them about how at their age she felt lost and lonely, with low self-esteem, an absent father and a brother who beat her up all the time. She did anything to get attention, such as stealing and getting pissed. "I didn't feel good about myself. When I took drugs I felt amazing and when I stopped I realized it was a false world, the pain was still there."Harry Sumnall, professor in Substance Use at the Center for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University, describes drugs education as "patchy, really bad, with little relevance to young people's lives." Research has shown that knowledge of the bare facts about drugs does not really do much to help children's decision making, so the AWF's emphasis is all about talking through the emotional reasons why people become addicted to drugs.Winehouse herself admitted in an interview shortly after overdosing on drugs in 2007 that her drug addiction had its roots in her teenage mental state. "Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me," she told German magazine Stern. "Since then, I have taken pills for depression. I believe there are lots of people who have these mood changes."
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