That year, Alex was doing an internship and working on his Master’s thesis on Criminal Behavior and Abnormal Psychology; Bianca was a junior and finishing her undergrad work in Philosophy. Bianca had just started spending time with a new group of friends, and these ‘friends’ of hers were into drugs. Alex knew that Bianca suffered from anxiety, and that she had a prescription for Ativan, a mild, fast-acting sedative that was effective for acute episodes of anxiety, or panic attacks. She made a fatal mistake one night, and allowed a girl to shoot her up with Heroin. “The good stuff,” that group had later reported to police; it was a particularly strong batch. As far as Alex or anyone knew, this was the first time Bianca had done anything like this. Her friend had given her too much. While sh
