A 33-YEAR-OLD man died after taking a heroin overdose.

An inquest in Preston hear Graham Haynes, from Burnley, died at his home on January 13 this year after taking the drug.

He had been drinking and listening to music with his girlfriend in the hours leading up to his death.

But he then left the house at 10pm on January 12 to get a methadone prescription.

When Mr Haynes returned, he went upstairs, at which point his girlfriend suspected he had used heroin.

The hearing was then told that Mr Haynes, of Angle Street, came downstairs around thirty minutes later.

His girlfriend said:”I must have fallen asleep at this point.

“I woke up sometime later and he wasn’t moving.

“I tried to wake him but I couldn’t.

“I contacted the ambulance.”

But Mr Haynes was pronounced dead at the scene.

Pathologist Dr Al Mudaffer said the cause of Mr Haynes death was central nervous system and respiratory system depression from heroin and methadone use.

He said: “His toxicology showed evidence of a total blood morphine and methadone level within the range encountered in fatality.”

Concluding, assistant coroner Richard Taylor, said: “Mr Haynes’s death was drug related.

“He died having ingested an excess of heroin.”