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soon admitted to her that he had started to take prescription opioids. O’Donnell broke up with Hoffman and moved to a different apartment with their three children when she realized that he had begun to use heroin again. “You’re going to die. That’s what happens with heroin,” she said that she told him before moving out. After that, Hoffman tried to stop using heroin on his own, but detoxing from the drug was so physically painful for him that he returned to using it within a day or two each time he tried to stop. Hoffman knew that when he was using drugs he wasn’t financially responsible and that he wasn’t a good father to the children he and O’Donnell had together. Shortly after filming scenes for a movie in Atlanta, Georgia, Hoffman returned to his apartment in New York and began using several different drugs, including heroin. Although O’Donnell and friends tried to look after Hoffman after he came home, he bought heroin and other illegal drugs from dealers, and within three days, he was dead.

A Famous Actor Loses His Battle with Heroin

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