11.   Her two sisters had died from heroin overdoses, she said.

12.   His sister is dead from a heroin overdose, and he has two brothers in prison.

13.   In July, touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin died of a heroin overdose and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was arrested for drug possession.

14.   In nearby Claremont, police this month investigated three nonfatal heroin overdoses in five days.

15.   It was the worst outbreak of heroin overdoses in New York in more than a decade, drug experts and police officials said.

16.   No autopsy was conducted and his death was declared an accidental heroin overdose.

17.   Outsiders could be blamed for even a relatively recent plague of drug abuse, and a string of fatal heroin overdoses that immediately preceded the suicides.

18.   She had died of a heroin overdose.

19.   She was found dead of a heroin overdose in a seedy flophouse last August.

20.   Sorrenti, whose work invoked the drug esthetic, died of a heroin overdose.