A popular young man "with the world at his feet" drowned in a canal after a night of mixing alcohol with potentially lethal amounts of ketamine, an inquest heard.
The body of apprentice plumber Matthew Dutton, 22, was found days after he went missing on his way home from the pub in Wigan last summer.
Senior coroner for Manchester West Timothy Brennand described Mr Dutton's actions on the night of his death as "akin to playing chemical Russian Roulette".
During the hearing at Bolton Coroner's Court on Tuesday, the death was recorded as an accident, reports the Manchester Evening News.
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