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We knew several young men, all from upper-middle-class or upper-class families, who died from heroin overdose in the past two years. They were suffering from mild or moderate mental illness (typically depression or bi-polar disorder), stopped taking their prescription meds and going to counselling, and started self-medicating with cheap, high-purity heroin.