The dark autumn that Hollywood is going through seemed to get even blacker when the body of young Evan Ellingson, whose appearances in CSI Miami y Bones They earned him significant fame on the small screen, he appeared lifeless in his own home on the night of November 5. Tena tan solo 35 at. Although he had been away from the cameras for more than a decade, his presence seemed to have never left, in addition to that kind of immortality that mid-afternoon series grant. I know it seemed real when his own father confessed that the interpreter He had had drug problems and was undergoing treatment.
Although at first this confession of the parent to TMZ resulted in the machination of many theories, the truth is that the cause of death has not emerged until now. And it is not far from the most macabre scenarios. County Sheriff’s Coroner’s Department San Bernardino, where Fontana is located, where the actor resided, has completed its investigation. Again, TMZ has given the exclusive. Ellingson died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl.
A ghost haunts North America
Fentanyl is what is found under the sheet: a very cheap synthetic opioid that causes effects one hundred times more powerful than morphine and 50 times more powerful than heroin. Behind this drug is the main cause of death due to overdose in the country’s large cities, whose consumption has multiplied by four in just two years. The final portrait is that of impoverished neighborhoods inhabited by an army of people who have lost all kinds of perception and wander, wander and walk the streets like zombies.
Thus a Molotov cocktail of risks emerges that continues to take souls. In 2021 alone, around 70,000 Americans died from this cause; A figure that, extrapolated to the black period between 2019 and 2021, results in about 200 deaths per day. Fentanyl has killed more Americans than the Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq wars combined.
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Ellingson’s death was no exception. Although the tsunami of deaths in the seventh art is due to a host of circumstances that do not necessarily depend on the drug, Within this tide there are many bubbles that burst due to addictions.
And there fentanyl has been revealed as a terrifyingly deadly piece. Young Angus Cloud, star of Euphoriathe iconic Michael K. Williams, the legendary Lil Peep and Coolio, the promising Mac Miller, or Robert De Niro’s grandson, Leandro. They are all names that have been dragged to death by fentanylwhose pressure does not stop rising and constricting the sticky and dark world of addictions, that now has claimed another victim.
