A DRUG addict died from a heroin overdose despite his friend’s desperate efforts to save him, an inquest heard.
Christopher Cunliffe was found slumped on the sofa next to a used syringe at his friend’s home in Hollybrook Road, Shirley, Southampton.
An inquest heard how the 36-year-old’s friend Simon Davis immediately dialled 999 and tried to revive him by injecting the opiate-countering drug Naxalone before paramedics arrived.
But he was later pronounced dead at Southampton General Hospital.
The inquest heard Mr Cunliffe, of Ranelagh Gardens, Southampton, had a long history of drug use.
A post-mortem by pathologist Jeffrey Theaker revealed quantities of opiates morphine, codeine and noscapine and traces of cocaine in his body. Southampton coroner Keith Wiseman recorded a drugs dependency determination.
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