Who is responsible for heroin overdoses?
I just read your reply to Sherry whose brother died of a heroin overdose. “Should I get even with the drug dealer who killed my brother?” Your response says that he took the drugs himself … this is true. However, this is not the issue. The issue is that someone else sat there and knew he was dying. Just because someone is a drug addict gives them no excuse to watch someone else die. Just because her brother was a drug addict does not mean that his death is less important than someone else. The same thing happened to my brother and there were two people in his presence who ‘watched him die’. I think these people should be prosecuted because they have a responsibility to human life, whether they are junkies or not. I am tired of hearing “well if he didn’t associate himself with junkie losers he wouldn’t be dead.” I know what the law is in here in NY, but in Florida they are very different. In a situation like this, these people can be charged with culpable negligence and spend some 15
