LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — The Cowlitz County, Wash., coroner says super-pure heroin is blamed for the deaths of seven people in the county in five days.
Coroner Tim Davidson told the Daily News on Wednesday (http://is.gd/BYwzrU ) that, in his words, “They’re dying with the syringe still in their hands.”
The victims include a man who died in a grocery store restroom and a man who died last Friday in Kelso but whose body was found Tuesday night along a creek.
Deputy Coroner Brett Dundas says medical examiners in Vancouver and Portland are also talking about the extremely pure heroin, sometimes called “hot heroin.”
