FMB wrote:I am a friend of Steven's from school and I think it is horrible that some of you resort to saying its drink/drugs, that the young are oblivious to dangers. Stop talking badly of him.
Sorry for your loss, but you can't stop people speculating that drink or drugs were involved. Kampot is a party town for (and i mean no disrespect to your friend here) young, dreadlocked and pierced fun travellers, and there is an undoubted drug problem there. Drug related deaths are relatively common. Just last year, there was an incident of two westerners dying from some bad drugs.
According to his friends at the scene, your friend was playing on the river, despite not being able to swim. If he wasn't intoxicated, then he was wildly foolish and clearly oblivious to the dangers of that river, which has also claimed a few lives of young travellers, including a young woman just a month or so ago in very similar circumstances.