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Amy Winehouse's Back to Black tops UK album chart

The morbid but perennially accurate music industry adage that few things boost sales more than an untimely demise has been proven again in this week's UK charts , which features Amy Winehouse 's Back to Black as the bestselling album.

No fewer than five of her singles are also in the top 40. Back to Black, the second of just two albums by the hugely talented but vulnerable singer, who was found dead just over a week ago, aged 27, returned to the top spot for the first time since its release in 2006.

Winehouse's 2003 debut, Frank, was at number five, a considerably higher position than its previous peak of 13. A boxset of the two albums, which is counted as a separate release, entered the chart at 10.

It was a similar story in the singles rundown where five songs from Back to Black, a melancholic collection largely inspired by a romantic loss, entered the top 40.

The title track charted highest, at eight, with Tears Dry On Their Own at 27, Rehab at 29, Love is a Losing Game at 33 and You Know I'm No Good at 37.

Winehouse was found dead inside her house in Camden, north London , by a security guard on 23 July. A postmortem examination was inconclusive and the results of toxicology tests are awaited.

The singer had previously been a heavy drug user but was reported to have responded well to treatment.

Her family said she had also recently stopped drinking following a period of apparently heavy alcohol abuse.

Increasing Drug Abuse Among Youth: Symptoms And Solutions

By Ankur Shukla :

We have been experiencing an alarming increase of drug abuse among the youngsters in recent years. Every now and then we read in the newspapers that teens are being held for consuming drugs and most of them are usually aged between 17-20. But the main question arises that why the Indian society is experiencing such a dilemma where more of the teenagers and youths are involved in unethical and unproductive activities like substance or drug abuse .

The youths are topping the charts for the wrong reasons this time around. Recently many college-going boys and girls were hauled up by the police involved in the case of drug consumption in a rave party. The alarming rate of drug abuse has always been a problem and especially the increase of drug abuse among youngsters has had detrimental effects on the society.

What leads to drug addiction?

Sheer pressure of studies on students might be one of the few cases which results in substance abuse among the youngsters. The educational system nowadays is very competitive and lacks flexibility with lakhs of students appearing for few thousand seats. Again there is always a parental burden which adds to the pressure of making it big academically.

Personal and family problems also leads to drug abuse among youngsters who fail to cope up with the ever-growing family and personal problems. Workplace pressure and issues with the colleagues results in workplace deviance which later results in detrimental effects on the individual.

The adolescence situation is often the cause of such unproductive activities. The friend’s circle in which a young individual stays also influences his/her activities. A boy/girl who has a company of friends who are into drugs and alcohol tends to repeat the same; an attempt to be an active member of the peer group which often results in addiction of the same leading to many unproductive activities in future of the youngsters.

It might begin with experimenting. A friend or your loved one’s must have tried it once out of curiosity because of friends or just to cope up with a problem. In the early stages, one might really find it helpful to erase some problems or make one’s life better, which leads to more and more consumption of drugs. But as addiction reaches a step further, it becomes more of a need rather than just a problem solver. Even for simple petty issues which can be solved will result in drug abuse because one is so used to it that without consumption of the same, one just cannot think of anything.

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