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<h6 class="section-tag"><span style="color:#030000;"><strong>Father and son lost their lives allegedly of drug overdoses as family celebrated a birthday party, in Brooklyn, New York Sunday</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="section-tag"><span style="color:#030000;"><strong>Joseph Andrade, 44, and his 22-year-old son, Carlos, allegedly died after snorting a combination of</strong> heroin<strong> and fentanyl</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="section-tag"><span style="color:#030000;"><strong>Carlos from Maryland, was not known to use drugs, but joined his dad, an addict, in partying with powerful opiates</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="section-tag"><span style="color:#030000;"><strong>The pair succumbed soon after excusing themselves from festivities at a family gathering, ostensibly for a s</strong>moke</span></h6>
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<h6 class="wp-caption-text featured"><strong>Carlos and his father Joseph Andrade [right died Saturday of apparent drug overdose</strong></h6>
<div class="wp-caption-text featured">A family from Brooklyn, New York could on watch with horrified on Sunday as a happy family gathering morphed into gut wrenching as family member and his adult son died together succumbed to the effects of a double opioid overdose while celebrating a family birthday party, police said.</div>
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<p>Auto Mechanic Joseph Andrade, 44, and his 22-year-old son, Carlos, lost their lives soon after excusing themselves from the festivities by telling people they were stepping out to smoke cigarettes.<br />
Perplexed friends and family are left trying to figure out why Carlos, who was not known to use drugs, joined his father, a reputed addict, in taking some powerful opiates, apparently snorting a mix of heroin and fentanyl.<br />
Carlos, a Maryland resident had driven up to join up with the rest of the family for the birthday bash with his girlfriend Jasmin, and their children, ages 1 and 4, a relative said.<br />
“Jasmin found Carlos dying,” a cousin, Sonia Santos said.<br />
Carlos, his face turning purple as he asphyxiated, was discovered by Jasmin, just inside the foyer of his father’s building just after 3 a.m.<br />
“She screamed and tried to help him. She said he was turning blue,” according to Sonia.<br />
The father was found a few feet away, outside the building on 27th Street near Fourth Avenue in Greenwood, according to cops.<br />
The distraught women called 911 and responding officers administered Narcan, a drug that reverses the effects of an overdose.<br />
intervention came too late. Father and son later died at Lutheran Medical.<br />
Acquaintances said Joseph, who worked on and off as an auto mechanic, may have struggled with addiction.<br />
“The father had a problem,” one neighbor divulged. “People knew. I was surprised Carlos was involved. He was a good son.”<br />
“That building was always fine until recently,” another resident lamented. “We’ve never had anything like this before, but lately there’s been a lot of men, drinking, getting drunk outside, late into the night.”<br />
The deaths are under investigation and cause will be established when the medical examiner&#8217;s office submits the autopsy reports.</p>
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Double tragedy hits New York family! Father and son die of opioid overdose after birthday party
