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The singer had battled drug and alcohol problems for years, was found dead in bed at her London home on July 23 at age 27.
Pathologist Suhail Baithun told the singer's inquest Wednesday that Winehouse had consumed a "very large quantity of alcohol" and was more than five times over the legal drunk-driving limit when she died.
Her doctors say she had repeatedly refused therapy to deal with her drinking problems, telling her medical team that she would resolve her problems in her own way, according to THR.
Speaking at the Inquest, which found that the singer had died of alcohol poisoning on July 23, her physician of four years Dr Christina Romete said the star had been optimistic about the future and had refused psychological therapy for her alcohol issues on numerous occasions.
"She [Winehouse] was opposed to any sort of psychological therapy…she was one of the most intelligent young women I've ever met. She was very determined to do things her way, including her therapy. She had very strict views on that," the doctor said, according to reports. Romete said the star interspersed alcohol with "periods of abstinence."Three vodka bottles were later found by her bed when Winehouse's inert body was discovered in the early evening of July 23. The physician told the inquest she had seen the singer at around 7 p.m. on the night before she died, and that Winehouse had already been drinking. "She was calm, she was coherent. She was tipsy I would say, but she didn't slur and was able to hold a full conversation."The inquest heard that at the time of her death, pathologist professor Suhail Baithun had found 416mg of alcohol per deciliter of blood in the underweight and fragile singer's body. The legal driving limit is 80mg, a level of 200mg would see an ordinary person lose control over their bodies and face injury while a level of over 350mg is associated with fatalities, he told the court.
The family has set up the Amy Winehouse Foundation in the singer's name.
