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Student Finds Mother Dead From OD

Joe Malinconico / PatersonPress.com

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 • 9:40am

 

PATERSON, NJ – A Paterson youth came home from school on Monday to find his 32-year-old mother dead on her bed from a drug overdose, police said.

The woman’s 36-year-old live-in boyfriend also overdosed but he was resuscitated  at the home on 2nd Avenue and taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, where he is in stable condition.

Authorities have not released the age of the youth.

PatersonPress.com does not publish the names of drug overdose victims.

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