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Beware The Bud Light Heroin Being Sold In New Jersey
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Lauren Evans
Published Jan 15, 2014
Modified Jan 15, 2014
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Published Jan 15, 2014
Modified Jan 15, 2014
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Warning: The integrity of your heroin might be compromised. Look, now, at your heroin fold—is there a red Bud Light symbol stamped to the outside? Remove the needle from your arm, the heroin-cigarette from your mouth, or the straw from your nose/stripper's butt crack (that's a thing): Your batch of heroin could be hazardous...er.
New Jersey officials are warning the heroin-using public against the Bud-branded smack, after two men fatally overdosed on the stuff last week, the Star-Ledger reports.
According to county Prosecutor Joseph Coronato, one 42-year-old Jersey City man was found dead Friday in the bathroom of a supermarket. The next day, a 32-year-old Seaside Heights man was found dead in his home. Both had the Bud Light folds on them at the time of their deaths.
Though autopsies for both men are still under way, Coronato warned as a precaution that the overdoses "may have been caused by a batch of heroin that included toxic elements which prove fatal without medical attention."
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