A pedestrian walks past photographs and flowers placed at a memorial for Canadian actor Cory Monteith outside the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Monday, July 15. Officials in British Columbia, where Mr. Monteith grew up and where he died at the age of 31 at a hotel on Saturday, warned this week of a recent spike in deaths related to heroin. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press/AP)
6:47 pm ET -The number of heroin addictions and deaths among young people, many of whom previously abused prescription drugs, has risen dramatically, experts say. Cory Monteith battled addiction for years.
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