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Winehouse's six-day drugs 'cure'

May 22, 2008 23:00

ByAnonymous, Anonymous

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Amy Winehouse is to go to Israel for drug rehabilitation, the JC can exclusively reveal, write Michal Levertov in Tel Aviv and Candice Krieger. A senior Israeli official confirmed to this newspaper that the singer, who is battling a well-documented drug addiction, will fly to Israel within weeks to undergo treatment at an Israeli clinic.

Eliezer Cohen, chairman of the Israel Anti-Drug Authority, which operates under the auspices of the Prime Minister’s Office, said that Ms Winehouse, 24, will arrive in Israel for “medical care, which is a very short, intensive and effective treatment”. He said the therapy was agreed when Ms Winehouse’s representatives contacted an Israeli specialist. Mr Cohen said: “They spoke to a renowned Israeli institution and an Israeli professor who conducts a very special and effective method. She [Ms Winehouse] has requested to come to him to do this method, since it’s a method that is suitable for her.”

The JC understands that Ms Winehouse will be treated by Andre Waismann, head of the opiate-dependency unit at the ANR clinic at the Barzilai Medical Centre in Ashkelon, a city frequently under Kassam rocket attack.

Dr Waismann’s “Accelerated Neuro-Regulation” (ANR) method aims to reverse both the drug addiction and its symptoms.