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Amy Winehouse's life and lyrics shimmered with the glories and agonies of love and she once said she drank because she was in love and botched her relationship. How many of us cover up romantic problems with other chemicals and then never learn to cope with the love stuff very well?     This week in  Sexcult: Self-Medication  in SeXis magazine I looked at love as a gateway drug and got to interview Dr. John Sharp of Dr. Drew's Celebrity Rehab, Dr. Joseph Shrand of the CASTLE Adolescent Rehabiliration Unit at the High Point Treatment Center in Brockton , MA and cultural anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher.      Brian Alexander, author of   America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction  who was nice enough to give me a quote for the piece, said that  "on the more general idea that some people are predisposed to "addictive" (I prefer brain-rewarding) stimulations and resulting behavior, I do believe this is true and I do bleieve it a...