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Fairfax, Virginia man pleads guilty in Drug Death of 17 year-old Centreville High School classmate.  Receives 12 year sentence with 5 years suspended.

In the below report, the drugs found in a post-mortem toxicology report are: alcohol, morphine, oxycodone and the anti-anxiety medication alprazolam, sold under the trade name Xanax.

As this blog has previously reported, Heroin is metabolized by the liver and never shows-up in toxicology as Heroin.  Evidence of Heroin usage is determined by the findings of the investigators and the presence of morphine.

The sale and use of morphine is highly unusual, so toxicology reports for morphine usually indicate that Heroin - not a synthetic opioid - was used by the victim.

http://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2017/03/fairfax-co-man-sentenced-drug-death-high-school-classmate/