Who is ultimately responsible?
I was tipped off to this story which ran this past week in the Cleveland Plain Dealer by someone back home.
The series, titled: “Andy’s Story” is the story about a suburban youth who gets into drugs, and ultimately dies of overdosing on heroin.
The family wants to prosecute the drug dealer with involuntary manslaughter, as the dealer sold the drugs which ultimately lead to the boy’s death.
You’ll need to read the whole series to ultimately see what happened.
But here’s the question:
–Should anyone be charged in this case?
–Should it be possible to prosecute drug dealers for a (drug) user’s death?
–Are parents really that uninformed (or you could say naive) as to what their children do?
And for the record–yes, drug use happens in the suburbs–at much higher rates than you’d expect as well.