I know you guys like your local news, but this is a lesson I think we can all benefit from. I know this family......it's very devastating. News Video with 911 call DES MOINES, Iowa -- In a 911 call released by Des Moines police on Friday you can hear a frantic mother asking for help. She'd just discovered Dustin Harter, a 14-year old Brody Middle School student, in her son's bedroom. He was unresponsive. Police said Harter had died of an overdose of prescription pills that were not his own. Dustin's uncles, Anthony and Stockton Harter, contacted KCCI on Friday. They wanted people to know Dustin didn't have a history of drug abuse and that the overdose was an accident. "I think it could have been prevented, but it's nobody's fault," Anthony Harter said. "Unfortunately, it was a peer-pressure issue and he folded," Stockton Harter added. Dustin was an eighth-grader at Brody Middle school. School officials said Thursday that he'd had lapses in attendance. His uncles said it was recent trouble that had developed over the past few months. "I know a lot of people are asking, 'Where were his parents?'" Anthony Harter said. "Well, they were doing all they could do." He said Dustin had run away from home several times and was staying with his grandmother when he disappeared this time. "You get to an age where you're a young teenager and you go through some confusion," Stockton Harter said. He said Dustin's parents are divorced and his dad had been laid off recently. He said Dustin was having a hard time finding himself. It was something his family was hoping he would work through. They wanted back the sunny, popular young man who helped his family without being asked and loved his music and skateboarding. "When you lose a kid you do beat yourself up," Stockton Harter said. "You ask what you could have done differently." While they can't change what happened, Dustin's uncles hope his story will change someone else's future. "I hope his friends take away that anytime they get in a peer pressure situation, that they reflect upon Dustin and what happened in this case and they make the right decision," Stockton Harter said. Toxicology reports that will show what Dustin took aren't back yet -- and likely won't be for some time. But Des Moines police said they don't think any charges will be filed against the family Dustin was staying with. Dustin's visitation is Sunday night from 2 to 7 p.m. at Hamilton's Southtown Funeral Home, 5400 SW Ninth St., Des Moines. His funeral is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. on Monday at Christ the King church, 5711 SW Ninth St., Des Moines. If you'd like to donate to his memorial and help his family pay for his burial, the funeral home has set up a fund -- care of his mom, Angel Riley.  

I can't imagine and don't want to..Poor mother. 

So sad...raising our children is the hardest job there is. I pray that I never have to struggle to have a good relationship with mine. I can't listen to the 911 call.... 

OMG,how horrible. I just don't even want to imagine. Prayers for his family & friends. 

Some of the things I've been reading is that a lot of these kids will take prescription drugs under the impression that they are "safe" because they are prescribed by a doctor. We've pushed for so long "Just Say No", but I think we were too consumed with street drugs. Sadly, today's street drugs are the scripts we ALL have in our own homes. 

Very tragic. What a handsome young man. 

I did listen to the news story..it sounds like the mom didn't even know that he was spending the night. The beginning of the tape sounds like she said something like "a kid my son snuck in last night". Just so sad. 

The other mom had no idea that Dustin was in her house. 

Very sad!! 

Wow...Thanks for the reminder POYBGP. Very sad. Praying for parents and kids. 

Overdose from pills can happen easily. We can only take a bit of knowlege from this tragity and make the extra effort to keep prescriptions somewhere that is generally out of access to our kids. Even that isn't a guarentee, but it helps. prayers to the families that had to deal with this. 

I don't know if it's still popular or not. A couple years ago somebody mention "pharm parties". Kids raid the medicine cabinets at their houses and get together and exchange/share pills.