it just makes me mad that someone can say this about someone they know nothing about

Tim Smith took 320 milligrams of Oxycodone, which was really stupid. Stolen Oxycodone, which was double stupid. And he paid for his stupidity with his life. Anything else we need to know?

Drugs are bad, see, because, well they’re drugs, and that’s bad, so drugs are bad

I can’t decide whether you sounded more like my four-year-old, with that statement, or more like my older sister after she’s smoked a kilo of maryjane…..LOL

Oh, wait a minute, it must be the four-year-old, because my sis wouldn’t be saying drugs were bad!

But here goes anyway. Drugs are bad, see, because, well they’re drugs, and that’s bad, so drugs are bad (draws on the chemical cocktail in a legal cigarette and swills some alchoholic fermenting yeast), so don’t take em, especially from your sick grandpa, Doofy!

Anyway – People need to wake up and realize what this shit is doing to people before it’s too late. The parents of this young mans friends need to step up NOW. It’s not like doing Oxy is comparable to smoking a little weed. They need to get involved and get help for these kids, before they end up dead or strung out on heroin. The death of a young kid is a very high price to pay for parents not being aware and involved. If there is anything positive to come out of this death, I hope it’s the wake up call needed to save other kids lives. Let’s just hope that the parents hear this wake up call and don’t just lay back down, hitting the snooze button.

Needless to say, Tom quit popping pills and focused on becoming a pothead and never got high on laxatives ever again ….. and he lived happily paranoid ever after.

to funny V, LMAO

teen social life was embedded in the public arena of the family? Of course you don’t — I don’t either. But I’m afraid those days need to return.

Me, too, Wry, me too.

Wow, this is pretty intense, I tell ya. Not too sure what to say. Maybe kids should be watched closely. Example, no night out goings, limited curfew, parents watching the friends, and stuff like that.

I think you’re right, but I would extend it to constant chaperonage by parents. Remember the days when a parent drove the “date couple” to the dance and picked them up? When teens weren’t free to drive around with other teens in their own car? When couples might have a half-hour alone in, but the door stayed open? When teens went shopping with their parents and perhaps a friend came along? When a date was a family meal and evening in the rec room? When teens rolled up the rug and danced instead of going to bars? In other words, when teen social life was embedded in the public arena of the family? Of course you don’t — I don’t either. But I’m afraid those days need to return.

One night he approached me at a party, looking to see if I had any good shit to give him. Boy, did I ever have some good shit on me and well, I was taught to share, so I gave him 10 pills of the BEST SHIT I had. Within .. oh … 10 minutes .. everyone else was privy to the BEST SHIT that Tom ever had.

V, I hope that people who are having their meds stolen by “shit-ass” kids read this and go and do likewise. Can you imagine how differently this might have turned out if all these kids shat their pants together?

Each child is different, and you as a parent know what level of vigilance is necessary for yours. I am sure you are doing a wonderful job, and your son is lucky to have you for a mom. Just the fact that you would even ask that question of yourself (Am I really doing enough?), tells me that you probably are. Good Mommy! Good Mommy!

Thanks, Angel. I feel your children are lucky, as well, to have a mom like you. I guess a tragedy like this one, just makes me stand back and make sure I AM doing not just enough, but all that I can. Like we all know, once something terrible happens, it is too late to go back and say what could I have done different?

I just want to make sure, if there is anything “different” I should be doing – I want it to be in preventive mode instead of after the fact, when it will not do anyone any good.

Elast! Can you imagine what 80mg does!?