Amy Winehouse To Blame For Drug Corruption In Africa

As if Amy Winehouse doesn't have enough problems these days — with Norwegian pot busts, spaghetti incidents, the arrest and imprisonment of her husband, bulimia and bad reviews of shaky performances during her current U.K. tour — now she's apparently responsible for the burgeoning drug trade in Africa.

"Rock stars like Amy Winehouse become popular by singing 'I ain't going to rehab,' even though she badly needed and eventually sought treatment," said Antonio Maria Costa, the head of the United Nations' Drugs And Crime Office, according to Britain's BBC 6 Music. "A sniff here and a sniff there in Europe are causing another disaster in Africa, to add to its poverty, its mass unemployment and its pandemics."

According to nme.com, Costa accused Winehouse and supermodel Kate Moss of glamourizing a global drug trade that threatens "the complete collapse of some impoverished west African nations, where certain governments were now vulnerable to the damaging influence of drug money."

We assume that Costa hasn't heard of Pete Doherty, who we hold accountable for helping prop up the Taliban in Afghanistan by using so much of their illicitly traded heroin.