Down the Victim Road - Again Nearly three years ago, a teenage kid was wheeled into the emergency room of a hospital in New Orleans and pronounced dead from a drug overdose that she had taken while attending a concert at a nearby night club. No big deal. That happens thousands of times in emergency rooms across the country every year. Mountains of such drugs, legal and illegal, are manufactured in this country every month.
Illegal drugs flow across our borders in virtually undisturbed rivers.
And her death must not have been very important, because we keep letting it happen, again and again, with numbing regularity. But it seems to have been important to her mother, who continues to visit her child's grave every day. The girl's name was Jillian. Although we're clearly too late to help Jillian, there is much we can learn from her death that can help us prevent this from happening in the future. At this point, however, the people associated with Jillian's death seem determined to waste the lesson.