Brad Renfro, A Victim Of Heroin Addiction, Overdose

Hollywood (dbTechno) - Former child star Brad Renfro has was found dead in his Los Angeles home on January 15. The cause of death has now been revealed as a heroin overdose. The highly addictive drug apparently proved to be too much for Renfro.

The Los Angeles coroner’s office has confirmed that an accidental heroin overdose killed Brad Renfro.

The 25-year-old Renfro was known to be fighting an addiction to heroin for years now, and was arrested in 2005 in relation to an incident with the highly addictive drug.

It seems that the addictive nature of heroin got the best of him in the end as it caused his untimely death.

Renfro was best known for his work as a child star. He starred along with Tommy Lee Jones and Susan Sarandon at the age of 12 in The Firm, and worked on many more films following it.