Published on June 18, 2024 at 3:36 p.m.
As a child, Dylan Rocha suffered from changing moods. As a teenager, it got worse. “He had moments of intense creativity, followed by moments of deep depression, during which he would lock himself in his room for four days,” says his mother Claire Rocha. During the pandemic, this young musician from Southampton started using heroin. In the summer of 2021, after a stint in rehab, he was getting better. “It had been a year since he had taken drugs and he had concerts planned with his group,” says his mother.
But on July 24, 2021, the 21-year-old plunged again. “His girlfriend found him prostrate on the floor in the bathroom at 4 a.m.,” she says. Emergency called, the paramedics could do nothing to save him. His death was attributed to nitazenes, synthetic opiates that were mixed with his dose of heroin.
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