Philip Seymour Hoffman: Why Heroin Is So Deadly

Monday, February 3, 2014 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman appears to have died of a heroin overdose on Sunday, just like many before him. The drug has certain characteristics that make it a highly lethal substance.

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