You know, what's distasteful about where this story has gone now is that in the LA area it's big news that law enforcement is moving aggressively against the illicit prescription-drug ring that supposedly supplied Haim with the drugs that killed him -
- but this ring has been around for a long time, and has been known for a long time, and has never been so aggressively pursued...until - horror of world-ending horrors! - a more-or-less professionally finished but well-known actor dies. An actor! Well, now something must be done!*
I know that's basically just Los Angeles (well, the US in general) for you, but it still rankles. I guess the non-famous-actor lives damaged, destroyed, or terminated using the ring's products didn't quite rise to the level of motivating law enforcement and the DA to actually do something.
* this is not a screed against actors, or their profession; it's bitching about the way that the larger society seems to go all squishy-in-the-knees-soft-between-the-ears over a story that's normally page twelve, when someone who happens to work in front of a camera is involved...
