Natalie Haight
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Thought some of you might like to read....my brother on the front page of ABC news website today......
Ryan Haight, an honor student who was barely 18, had died of an overdose of powerful prescription painkillers, a verdict that shocked his mother.
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Pharmacist Nailed for Online Drug Sales
Dec. 8 — Francine Haight will never forget the day she found her son Ryan, a high school senior, lifeless, in his bed.
The rest of the 3-page article can be found at:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Business/Internet_drug_stores_hunter_031208-1.html
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Ryan Haight, an honor student who was barely 18, had died of an overdose of powerful prescription painkillers, a verdict that shocked his mother.
No Exams Required
Pharmacist Nailed for Online Drug Sales
Dec. 8 — Francine Haight will never forget the day she found her son Ryan, a high school senior, lifeless, in his bed.
"I tried to resuscitate him," Haight, said crying. But it was too late. Doctors found that Ryan Haight, an honor student who was barely 18, had died of an overdose of powerful prescription painkillers, a verdict that shocked his mother.
"I was just, 'Oh my God — hydrocodone, morphine, morphine. How did he get morphine?" she recalled.
It turned out that some of the drugs that killed the La Mesa, Calif., teen on Feb. 12, 2001 came from *.com, a Norman, Okla.-based Internet drug store owned by pharmacist Clayton Fuchs, who also ran other similar Web sites.
Haight's parents intentionally made sure the computer wasn't in their son's bedroom, so that they could monitor his online activities. But he had been sneaking onto the computer in the den late at night and ordering drugs, then experimenting with various combinations to get high.
Fuchs sent Haight the drugs even though he knew the teenager had never been examined by the doctor who wrote the prescription.
"I felt that the prescriptions were valid, so I filled them," said Fuchs.
"I was just, 'Oh my God — hydrocodone, morphine, morphine. How did he get morphine?" she recalled.
It turned out that some of the drugs that killed the La Mesa, Calif., teen on Feb. 12, 2001 came from *.com, a Norman, Okla.-based Internet drug store owned by pharmacist Clayton Fuchs, who also ran other similar Web sites.
Haight's parents intentionally made sure the computer wasn't in their son's bedroom, so that they could monitor his online activities. But he had been sneaking onto the computer in the den late at night and ordering drugs, then experimenting with various combinations to get high.
Fuchs sent Haight the drugs even though he knew the teenager had never been examined by the doctor who wrote the prescription.
"I felt that the prescriptions were valid, so I filled them," said Fuchs.
The rest of the 3-page article can be found at:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Business/Internet_drug_stores_hunter_031208-1.html
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[Edit: Source URL removed. BigTrancer]
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