DRUG taking paraphernalia was discovered after a 38-year-old man died in a room at a Swindon hostel for the homeless.
Hilton Blandford had checked in to Davis House, in Fleming Way, on November 4 last year for a week, an inquest in Salisbury heard yesterday.
But he was found slumped over his bed when an assistant manager made a routine bed check round four days later.
The assistant manager, David Diston, said in a statement that he went into the room after getting no response to knocks on the door and calling Mr Blandford's name.
Police later found syringes and other drug equipment.
A post-mortem examination revealed that he had died from heroin toxicity and alcohol.
Wiltshire and Swindon's deputy coroner Richard Van Oppen's verdict was that he had died from drug abuse.
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