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Wed 11 Nov 2002Girl (2) dies after drinking methadoneA two-year-old Irish girl died after drinking the heroin substitute, methadone, in London, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.Jasmine O'Shaughnessy died within hours of drinking from a bottle of the drug which had been prescribed to her mother Louise (40).