Heroin, Fentanyl Mix Linked to Philip Seymour Hoffman Overdose
Posted on February 4, 2014
under Crime Stories, Personal Injury
By Tracy Manzer, Senior Editor Investigators have confirmed there is a possibility that Philip Seymour Hoffman, the much-acclaimed actor who was found dead in a Greenwich Village apartment Sunday from an apparent drug overdose, may have succumbed to a particularly deadly brand of heroin laced with the staggeringly powerful opioid called fentanyl. Drug experts say fentanyl is far more potent than morphine and much more powerful than heroin, and authorities throughout the Northeast have reportedly said they have seen a rash of fatal overdoses in recent months attributed to the new brand of drug. According to an article that ran recently in the Baltimore Sun, “The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said Friday that 37 Marylanders had died since September of overdoses after taking the drug mixture. The deaths accounted for 12 percent of 318 overdose deaths in the past four months. The deaths have raised concerns because…
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