(ANSA) - TERNI, JUL 10 - Two teenage boys who overdosed and
died in Terni earlier this week may have thought they'd taken
codeine rather than the methadone they were given by a local
drug addict, a preliminary investigations judge said Friday.
Codeine is widely taken as a recreational drug by young people.
The judge issued her finding in confirming the arrest warrant
for the 48-year-old addict, Aldo Maria Romboli.
It also emerged that the man gave the youngsters diluted
methadone last month too.
The boys, aged 15 and 16, were found dead in their respective
beds in their homes in the Umbrian city on Tuesday morning.
Romboli has confessed to giving them half an ampule of
methadone, diluted in water, for 15 euros. (ANSA).
Boys who OD'd may have thought they'd taken codeine
Addict had already supplied them with methadone last month