The Dangers of Depressant Drugs Cory Monteith, the popular “singing jock” on the hit television show Glee, had battled drug addiction off and on since his teens. A few months after he was released from rehab, he was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room, having overdosed on a potent mixture of heroin and alcohol. Also found in his system were morphine and codeine—
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