Every day in Ohio, four people die from drug overdoses. The latest figures from the Department of Health show that we hit a record in 2010.

More than 1,500 people died from accidental overdoses, many of them from prescription drugs, and to a lot of people that is just a number, but not to a mother in Clark County.

Two years ago this month, one prescription pill killed her son.

Danielle Smoot said, “Never in my worst nightmare, I envisioned this could happen to my family.”

But, for the last two years, that nightmare has been reality for Smoot and her family. “He was on the honor roll, extremely liked, well liked,” she said.

Cole was your All-American kid, but on Friday night February 11, 2011, something was wrong. “When Cole came into the kitchen, he had pinpoint pupils,” Smoot said.

Her training in nursing school had prepared her for this.

“I knew right away that he had taken a narcotic,” she said.

Smoot and her husband took Cole to the emergency room. Cole told doctors that he took a Methodone pill that he got at school.

The pill made him throw up, but doctors did not find anything else wrong, and let him go home that night.

“As I was walking him to his room, he said ‘mom I’m sorry I did this to you.’ I said, ‘You didn’t do this to me, you did it to yourself.’ He said I know, but I’m really sorry.”

She put Cole in bed, told him that she loved him and he went to sleep. The next day, she went to check on Cole.

“I looked at his face and his lips were blue,” Smoot said.

According to recent survey, one in six high school senior in the southern suburbs are at risk to be drug dependent.