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Colin Kroll, Founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, Died of Accidental Drug Overdose (nbcnewyork.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC New York: Colin Kroll, the co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, died of an accidental overdose, the city's medical examiner announced Tuesday. According to the autopsy results, Kroll died of "acute intoxication due to the combined effects of fentanyl, fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine." Kroll, 34, was found dead in his SoHo, Manhattan, apartment on Dec. 16, 2018. Police responded to a 911 call for a welfare check at the Spring Street apartment where they found Kroll unconscious and unresponsive in a bedroom of the apartment, a New York Police Department spokesman previously told NBC News. Kroll was named the chief executive of HQ Trivia, a phone-based trivia platform, in September. Prior to that, Kroll co-founded Vine, the popular short-form video service acquired in 2012 by Twitter. Vine was discontinued four years later.

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  1. Re:He choose to do drugs by drinkypoo · · Score: 1, Troll

    Addicts make poor decisions, like buying unregulated street drugs from people who don't get high on their own supply. The question is how he became an addict. Was it due to prescription drugs? If so, it's really not his fault his brain didn't work correctly.

    All these people who got hooked on prescription pain killers and then moved to heroin never once asked for help beforehand. They liked it.

    What part of "Addicts make poor decisions" did you find unclear? Which word was it? Or was it a particular syllable?

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