SAN DIEGO -- In a pharmacy, you can't buy certain drugs without a prescription. On the street, they are a hot commodity. But you can get them on the Internet with no questions asked.

From the time he came into this world, Ryan Haight wanted to make a difference.

Francine Haight, Ryan's mom, said her Grossmont High School student excelled both on and off the field. He was a sidekick to his sister, Natalie, and protector of his brother, Jeremy.

"It's just a hard thing because I still have flashbacks. I mean, it's not something that you ever forget," Haight said about the day she found Ryan dead.

Haight remembers Feb. 12, 2001, like it was yesterday.

She went shopping and came home that afternoon to find that her son's car hadn't moved.

"I knew something was wrong when his car hadn't moved," Haight said.

Haight found Ryan dead in bed.

"One of the sheriff's came out and said, 'This is what we found in your son's room.' It was a big bottle of Vicodin," Haight said.

Ryan overdosed on Vicodin, a drug he bought over the Internet with a debit card -- a drug strictly regulated by the Drug Enforcement Agency.

There are approximately 500 identifiable rogue pharmacy Web sites operating on the Internet. Anyone can buy the drugs by filling out an online questionnaire. The drugs are delivered to the customer's house, even though federal law says a prescription is only legal with a bona fide doctor-patient relationship.

Janet St. James, a reporter from Dallas-based WFAA, confronted one of the pharmacists who sold the investigative team a bottle of Vicodin without a valid prescription.

St. James: "I ordered them through Triphasic Pharmacy."

Triphasic Pharmacy owner: "No, you did not."

St. James: "Yes, I did."

Triphasic Pharmacy owner: "No ma'am. You ordered them through a Web site."

St. James: "You are correct. I ordered them through a Web site and Triphasic Pharmacy filled them."

Triphasic Pharmacy owner: "That's correct. We have contracts with Web sites and that's not illegal."

The pharmacy owner said the Web site writes the prescription. His job is simply to properly fill it.

"This is just unfathomable that someone would be able to do this," said Tom Needham, a pharmacist from University of Rhode Island.

10News tested the Vicodin bought online.

The pills tested positive for illegal substances, but that's about all testing showed.

"It bothers me that these drugs may be counterfeit. They're certainly uncontrolled, so we don't know, one, if the drug is there, how much of the drug is there and if it's expired or where this tablet been," said Bill Beaulieu, another pharmacist from the University of Rhode Island.

"Parents need to be aware that you can't just be concerned about the street pusher any more - they're on the Internet," said Haight.

Francine Haight is fullfilling her son's wish to make a difference by speaking out, perhaps saving a life, even if she couldn't save the life that mattered most.

"There are still moments where you just get this lump in your throat, you just get this awful feeling inside you that you know this could have been prevented had we known," Haight said.

Haight worked with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who introduced a bill called "The Ryan Haight Act." It's still in committee, but if it passes, it will require tighter restrictions on Internet drug companies.

For more information, visit ryanscause.org.