Is anyone to blame?

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The buzz began within hours of the news that Whitney Houston was dead. That her fate was sealed when she hooked up with this guy:

Bobby Brown, ex-husband, who was into the whole sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll thing. Houston told Diane Sawyer in 2002 that stuff almost killed her:

But she didn’t blame Bobby.

“Nobody makes me do anything I don’t want to do. It’s my decision, so the biggest devil is me. I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy,” Houston told Sawyer.

They finally divorced, and the breakup seemed to change him — he went on the radio in Atlanta to say he was off drugs:

“I do not use drugs anymore,” said Brown. “I drink a little bit.”

And she sounded confident too:

“It took me all these years to realize that you don’t belong here. I can do better,” said her song Salute.

But the report from TMZ was that police found Lorazepam, Valium and Xanax in her room. Do you blame Bobby Brown for that? She didn’t.

So maybe it’s just the obvious. Depending on which stats you believe, each year — between 30,000 and 200,000 Americans die by misusing prescription drugs …some are just more famous than others.

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