Yes, this is a horrible situation. HOWEVER, optimism and jviers77, you make excellent points. Unfortunately in today's society the teachings are that we don't have to be accountable for our own actions, and we can all be victims. I'm sorry this woman lost her son and I'm sorry he made poor choices. And I think it's great that there's motivation to "get tough" on illegal drug use. Nonetheless, one can't lose sight that the poor choices made by her adult son cost him his life, in this instance.

This is just like the recent tragedy in Edgerton. The family couldn't except the fact that the man had mental issues, and chose to blame the police and crisis center. This will forever be the way things are being it is too hard to except your own son..daughter..wife..etc, could actually be less than perfect.

At some point, personal responsibility has to come into play. If the dealer who sold the drugs hadn't sold them to her son, he would've gotten them somewhere else. Her son chose to use drugs and died as a direct result of it. It's a sad and all too common story, but it was his choice. Everytime tragedy happens, people look for others to blame. Sometimes, people just make bad choices. There can't always be a scapegoat.

mymaro....Bingo!

Nutty...I totally agree. It seems everyone wants this to be a NO FAULT country. It really is getting sickening. I agree that a person loses their identity when they become an addict, but that still doesn't put other people at fault for their behavoir. Sure, let's stick with the selling drugs without a drug stamp punishment, but murder...nah!

Just wondering...how do you die from Suboxone? Unless you shoot it or use it with drugs that it has interactions with it then it is not supposed to be fatal... So if he chose to take other things with it or misused a drug that helps a lot of people then why is it someone elses fault??

A few years ago none of us would have suspected that spray paint would have been used as a drug to get high off of. (intentionally anyway) A druggie will always find something to get high from. And a lot of times the things they find leave us all saying "huh?".

Being single-minded and overbearing again kid? A woman's son has died because a pusher sold him a schedule III drug that can't be prosecuted under this law and all you want to write is that it wasn't marijuana so it should be legal. That's not the way to win friends and influence people.

Suboxone is given to poeple with herion addiction. It is to control the bodys craving for the drug. I dont know what kind of high you get off of it if your not using it for the purpose of supressing the craving for herion.

THis is so hard to take sides on. Yes, I believe that a person who supplies the drug(s) that kills a person should be held accountable as an accessory to the crime, but then on the other hand, if there was no demand, there would be no supply. Unless one wants to help themselves, then there is no way to stop druggies from being druggies, and they will take anything for that high. I can see it now, sometime in the future (if not tried already) someone is going to try prosecuting an alcohol company because they supplied the beer/cocktail that their loved one drank too much of and died of a pickled liver. This to me is just another example of people refusing to see the person who did the drug responsible. It is alwasy someone else's fault.

marijuana is a schedule I narcotic which means by definition it 'has a high risk of abuse and no known medical use' yet this Suboxone is a schedule III narcotic which means it has 'potential for abuse less than schedule I and II....and currenty accepted medical use'. more people have died from Suboxone in this story alone than have EVER died from the direct use of marijuana.

We can try to prevent people from causing harm to others, but you can't save people from themselves, unfortunately.

If someone causes the death of anyone no matter what the means, yes they should be held responsible.