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Coroner: Renfro Overdosed on Heroin

In a sad conclusion to a tragic life, the Los Angeles County Coroner confirmed that actor Brad Renfro died from an accidental overdose of heroin.

The cause of death was ruled "acute heroin/morphine intoxication," and the drugs were injected, according to the coroner's office. "The final manner of death has been ruled an accident," the coroner reported. The 25-year-old former child actor was found dead in his L.A. home on January 15.

TMZ was at a court hearing last August when Renfro told a judge he was trying to get his life back together and get clean. He had been scheduled to return to court on February 27 for a status check.

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76. Just another dead junkie who p*ssed away an opportunity.

His family will have to live with the fact the guy made stupid choices and died a junkie on heroin like street trash.

Posted at 11:32AM on Feb 15th 2008 by Jimsc

77. When will young Hollywood learn? How many Brad Renfro's, River Phoenix's, Dana Plato, Chris Farley's, John Balushi's And Heath Ledgers do we have to lose in order to shake up these guys (though with Heath it was *accidental* the amount used was too excessive) WAKE UP guys ... drugs isnt the high you once found, it was your craft that gave you that *high .... Find THAT high again - its obvious - DRUGS KILL!

Posted at 10:43PM on Feb 19th 2008 by sacmonarch4

78. Brad Renfro's acting career had two extremely eerie foreshadowings of his death. First, his entire performance in Tart as an overprivileged downward-spiraling drug addict hardly required acting. Second, The Jacket two years ago had a scene at the end where Adrien Brody is talking about death and the camera skips to Renfro, it's totally spine-tingling to watch it now.

Posted at 11:20AM on Feb 25th 2008 by nero

79. Thanks for the great info

Posted at 6:44PM on Mar 1st 2008 by Paris

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