Hi everyone!
I have been investigating my brothers death for an audio story and was wondering if anyone on here had any insights into this situation. I don't know very much about drugs and addiction outside of what I know specifically about my brothers situation. Here it is...
My brother died in Oakland in 2002, his name was Danny Hope and he was 29 years old. He was addicted to painkillers and opiates(mostly heroin) for about 6 years before he died. He got into drugs from trying morphine out of his step grandfathers medicine cabinet. After a fall off of Mount Diablo he got hooked on pain killers and the rest is history. I was 12 years old when he died and now I'm 25.
The big mystery surrounding his death is that his death certificate said "No Cause of Death" and after a full toxicology report nothing was found. He was found 2 days after he died but apparently that doesn't mean much because drugs still should have been detected. When he was found he was lying on his back in bed and there was a candle next to him with a spoon with "brown liquid" (I assume that it was heroin), his belt on the floor next to him and a syringe was lying on his waist.
There was a full autopsy that took 3 months to close and there was nothing found in the syringe when it was tested. His heart, blood, urine, leg blood and vitreous were all tested and everything came up negative for drugs.
Does anyone have any idea what this might mean? is there a certain strain or combination of drugs that doesn't show up on toxicology reports? Has anyone ever heard of this with anyone they have lost? Any information would be so useful. Thank you so much for reading this.
I have been investigating my brothers death for an audio story and was wondering if anyone on here had any insights into this situation. I don't know very much about drugs and addiction outside of what I know specifically about my brothers situation. Here it is...
My brother died in Oakland in 2002, his name was Danny Hope and he was 29 years old. He was addicted to painkillers and opiates(mostly heroin) for about 6 years before he died. He got into drugs from trying morphine out of his step grandfathers medicine cabinet. After a fall off of Mount Diablo he got hooked on pain killers and the rest is history. I was 12 years old when he died and now I'm 25.
The big mystery surrounding his death is that his death certificate said "No Cause of Death" and after a full toxicology report nothing was found. He was found 2 days after he died but apparently that doesn't mean much because drugs still should have been detected. When he was found he was lying on his back in bed and there was a candle next to him with a spoon with "brown liquid" (I assume that it was heroin), his belt on the floor next to him and a syringe was lying on his waist.
There was a full autopsy that took 3 months to close and there was nothing found in the syringe when it was tested. His heart, blood, urine, leg blood and vitreous were all tested and everything came up negative for drugs.
Does anyone have any idea what this might mean? is there a certain strain or combination of drugs that doesn't show up on toxicology reports? Has anyone ever heard of this with anyone they have lost? Any information would be so useful. Thank you so much for reading this.