In a disheartening marketing ploy, Brazilian drug pushers are using the sensationalized death of the singer to improve their illegal sales by placing photos of Winehouse inside drug packets.

In a report posted by the AFP, drug pushers based in Rio De Janeiro are using Amy Winehouse photos to elevate their drug sales. The singer is described as "Amy House" in the photo inserts. A number of street sold cocaine packs were discovered during a police raid lead by Lieutenant Colonel Glaucio Moreira in the slums of Manginhos. The packs were said to value between $6 to $16, and are sold in 10 to 25 reals.

"Since there is so much information in the media that she was a drug user, the traffickers have taken advantage of this," said Moreira to a local reporter. Amy Winehouse, whose career was riddled with drug use and alcoholism, died at age 27 on July 23 in her North London home. Although believed to have died due to seizures caused by drug withdrawals, a London drug fixer claimed Winehouse bought £1200 worth of crack cocaine the night before the singer's death. Tony Azzopardi, the 56-year-old drug fixer, says the singer met him in a Camden pub, rode with him in a black cab until he got off near the singer's home.

In the same raid, Moreira said they also found packets of marijuana and heroin with the photo inserts of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, who was killed by US Navy Seals last May. Sources are unaware if the Winehouse family has already been notified of this grave misuse of the singer's memory.

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