'He was gone': fentanyl and the opioid deaths destroying Australian families

Investigators feared the deaths might have been linked to a bad batch of imported opiates. The truth may be more unsettling

A few days before he died of a drug overdose, Sally's (not her real name) younger brother called her to make plans.

"Someone had given him gold-class movie tickets and he wanted to take me to see Batman v Superman," she told a coroners court this week. "He was looking forward to our regular Sunday family dinner and he was talking about all the TV shows that he wanted to watch.